SURVEY 

of  the 

Missionary  and  Educational  Work 

of  the 

Congregational  Churches 

1921 . 1922 


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SURVEY 

of  the 

Missionary  and  Educational  Work 

of  the 

Congregational  Churches 

1921-1922 


Issued  by 

The  Commission  on  Missions  of  the  National  Council 
287  Fourth  Avenue  -  New  York  City 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Page* 


A  Panorama  .  1 

How  to  Uso  This  Survev .  2 

The  Romance  of  the  Treasui'A'  .  3 

The  Missing  Millions  .  “1 

The  American  Missionary  Association  .  5 

The  Congregational  Education  Society . .  12 

The  Congi’cgational  Foundation  for  Education .  15 

The  Church  Extension  Boards  .  17 

The  Congregational  Boai‘d  of  Ministerial  Relief .  31 

The  Annuity  Fund  for  Congregational  Ministers .  32 

The  Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Federation .  33 

The  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions.  36 

The  Woman’s  Boards  .  53 

Total  Askings  .  60 

The  Five-Million-Dollar  Budget  .  61 

What  Is  Our  Share  ? .  62 

We  Can  Do  It .  63 

These  Have  Done  It  .  64 


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THE  SURVEY 


A  PANORAMA 

the  contents  of  this  Survey  number  are  intended  for 
earnest  people.  Those  addicted  exclusively  to  light  literature 
4^  '  should  drop  these  pages  at  once.  Entertainment,  however,  there 
should  be  in  them  for  people  who  love  the  worth  while.  Here  is  a 
sweeping  panorama  of  human  life,  and  that  where  life  is  interesting, 
where  it  is  changing  and  improving,  agonizing  and  conquering;  life 
where  the  will  of  man  finds  the  power  of  God,  and  that  by  a  process  in 
which  we  ourselves  have  a  vital  part,  through  our  missionary  enterprises 
whose  total  work  is  comprehensively  surveyed  herein. 

Enthusiasm  is  justifiable  in  the  face  of  the  greatness  of  our  denomi¬ 
national  adventures.  Through  them  800,000  earnest  souls  in  America 
interest  themselves  in  80,000,000  souls  in  all  quarters  of  the  earth.  That 
is,  each  of  us  through  our  missionary  endeavors  alone  is  interested  in 
100  people  in  all  lands.  Some  40,000,000  of  dollars  in  capital  is  at 
work  in  this  enterprise ;  10,000  paid  workers  are  engaged,  and  over 
100,000  volunteer  workers  are  serving.  Geographically,  we  reach  every 
state  in  the  Union,  Alaska,  Hawaii,  Porto  Pico,  the  Philippines,  Europe, 
Asia,  Africa,  and  the  Islands  of  the  Sea.  In  range  of  activity,  for  the 
body  we  feed  the  hungry,  cure  the  sick,  and  enrich  the  industrial  and 
commercial  activities  of  many  races ;  for  the  mind  we  provide  education 
for  children,  youth  and  adults,  and  equip  for  leadership  men  of  many 
races.  We  minister  to  world-wide  social  order  primarily  through  fhe 
making  of  men,  but  directly  through  constructive  statecraft.  Above  all, 
we  reach  the  souls  of  men  with  the  power  of  God  through  the  Gospel. 

The  war  precipitated  a  crisis  in  this  far-reaching  endeavor.  The 
doubling  of  costs  everywhere  made  the  normal  missionary  income  wholly 
inadequate.  Sensing  the  necessity  of  action  the  denomination  set  itself 
with  vigor  to  meet  the  emergency,  calling  this  activity  the  Congregational 
World  Movement.  This  was  but  a  name  for  the  work  of  a  Commission 
instructed  to  bring  to  the  churches  all  the  facts.  At  the  last  meeting  of 
the  National  Council  that  Commission  was  merged  with  the  Commission 
on  Missions,  which  is  now  charged  with  this  endeavor  in  addition  to  its 
earlier  functions.  This  Survey  is  the  fundamental  document  of  the 
Commission  and  the  Societies  for  1921  and  1922. 

As  in  New  Testament  days,  Christ  himself  seems  to  be  looking  upon 
one,  young,  strong,  cultured,  rich,  who  is  asking  the  way  of  life.  As  the 
Master  looks  upon  this  fine  youth  among  the  nations.  He  loves  America, 
and  directing  eyes  and  heart  toward  the  needy,  bids  us  invest  of  our 
great  resources  in  the  lifting  up  of  fainting  men.  To  us  Congregation- 
alists  doubtless  He  is  not  commanding,  ‘‘  Sell  your  all  and  give  to  the 
poor,”  but  surely  He  is  saying  no  less  than  that  out  of  our  abundance 
we  should  provide  fully  for  the  needs  which  lie  at  the  door  of  our 
responsibility  as  represented  in  these  pages.  Surely  we  will  not  turn 
•  away  sadly  because  we  love  ourselves  and  our  possessions  better  than 
Christ  and  His  brethren. 


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THE  SURVEY 


A.  M.  258 


HOW  TO  USE  THIS  SURVEY 


HOULD  these  printed  pages  remain  in  the  bindery  they  would  never 
accomplish  their  purpose.  Equally,  they  will  fall  short  of  their  object 
unless  they  find  their  way  clear  through  to  the  minds  and  hearts  of 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  responsive  Christians. 


The  individual  will  find  in  these  pages  aid  in  determining  how  much  and 
where  he  wishes  to  invest  in  the  welfare  of  his  fellow  men  by  way  of  regular 
contribution.  Perhaps  he  will  have  accumulated  more  or  less  capital  which, 
rather  than  convert  into  coupon-yielding  bonds,  he  would  prefer  to  invest 
where  the  dividends  will  be  redeemed  human  life.  This  Survey  will  guide 
him  in  such,  investment.  It  may  be  that  this  investment  will  need  to  be  made 
in  the  nature  of  a  legacy,  or  of  an  anticipated  legacy,  called  a  Conditional  Gift, 
concerning  which  the  Commission,  or  any  one  of  the  Societies,  will  be  happy 
to  furnish  detailed  information.  Finally,  he  may  pass  on  this  Survey  to 
someone  else,  or  lead  some  group  in  the  study  of  its  pages.  Some  subscribers 
will  have  two  copies  of  the  Survey  because  it  is  printed  by  both  The  Mission¬ 
ary  Herald  and  The  American  Missionary.  This  will  be  a  welcome  duplica¬ 
tion  to  those  whose  interest  prompts  them  to  pass  it  on. 


Missionary  committees  and  leaders  will  find  this  their  fundamental 
text.  The  general  missionary  committee  will  want  to  make  the  facts  here 
given  the  basis  of  the  budget  taken  in  connection  with  the  apportionment 
sent  by  their  Association  or  Conference.  (See  page  62.) 

The  Every  Member  Canvass  Committee  will  desire  to  have  every  can¬ 
vasser  intimately  acquainted  with  the  details  of  the  missionary  budget  of  his 
church.  Such  information  is  here  in  compact  form.  It  might  be  well  for 
every  canvassing  team  to  carry  a  copy  with  them  for  reference.  Likewise,  the 
missionary  committees  and  leaders  of  the  various  organizations — ^Woman’s 
Society,  Sunday  School,  young  people’s  organization,  men’s  organization, 
etc.,  should  make  specific  use  of  detailed  information  here  given  in  connection 
with  whatever  missionary  program  may  be  put  on,  that  definite  denomina¬ 
tional  information  may  accompany  general  instruction. 

The  pastor  needs  a  text-book  of  concise  information  on  the  missionary 
program  of  the  denomination.  He  will  therefore  want  this  Survey  at  hand 
for  constant  reference.  He  will  discover  here  also  a  storehouse  of  homiletic 
material  for  various  needs,  and  particularly  for  missionary  sermons.  For 
deteimiining  the  missionary  program  of  the  church  and  its  departments  the 
Survey  is  indispensable.  He  will  want  to  see  that  there  is  a  copy  in  the  hands 
of  every  responsible  leader,  and  that  they  understand  its  value. 


Study  groups,  whether  in  schools  of  missions,  which  are  most  desirable, 
or  in  mission  study  classes.  Church  School  classes  or  other  organizations,  may 
well  use  the  Survey  as  a  text-book  for  a  given  course,  for  which  purpose  the 
Missionary  Education  Department  of  the  Education  Society  will  provide 
helps.  Where  other  text-books  are  used,  supplemental  material  should  be 
presented  from  this  denominational  handbook. 

Additional  copies  for  use  of  committees,  classes,  etc.,  will  be  furnished 
gratis  by  the  Commission  on  Missions.  Order  through  Rev.  H.  D.  Sheldon, 
287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City.  (Board  bound  copies,  25c.) 

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These  methods  are  only  suggestive,  and  the  inventive  mind  will  find  many 
ways  in  which  to  make  practical  use  of  this  material.  ‘‘If  ye  know  these 
things,  happy  are  ye  if  ye  do  them.” 


A.  M. 259 


THE  SURVEY 


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THE  ROMANCE  OF  THE  TREASURY 

ORDID  finance?  No!  Spiritual 
Romance.  Out  from  the  love  of 
past  generations,  through  lega¬ 
cies  and  funds,  $1,500,000  fiows  annu¬ 
ally  through  your  missionary  treas¬ 
uries — Spiritual  Romance !  Like  the 
transfusion  of  blood,  the  life  resources 
of  some  half  million  souls  in  Congrega¬ 
tional  churches  is  constantly  going  into 
the  veins  of  millions  to  the  ends  of  the 
earth,  as  represented  in  anywhere  from 
$3,000,000  to  $5,000,000  annually — 

Spiritual  Romance!  In  the  last  two 
hard  years  the  Congregational  people 
of  America  have  more  than  doubled 
their  missionary  contributions,  never 
from  sordid,  always  from  unselfish 
motives — Spiritual  Romance ! 

The  illustration  makes  graphic  this 
spiritual  dynamic.  The  vertical  lines 
represent  the  years  from  1910  to  1920. 

The  horizontal  lines,  the  percentage  of 
increase  (10  per  cent  per  line)  for  each 
Society  name  and  in  the  case  of  the 
heavy  black  line  that  of  the  total. 

Starting  points  are  arbitrary.  The 
figures  show  per  capita  giving  in  1910 
and  1920.  That  leap  upward  of  every 
line  in  the  last  two  years  registers  the 
fact  of  deep,  unselfish  interest  in  hun¬ 
dreds  of  thousands  of  Congregational 
Christians.  This  is  the  Romance  of  the 
Treasury. 

Let  us  not  miss  the  weighty  consid¬ 
eration  that  this  Romance  of  the 
Treasury  has  meant  the  enrichment  of 
the  spiritual  life  of  our  churches. 

Testimonies  are  offered  on  every  hand  that  earnest  response  to  the  Congre¬ 
gational  World  Movement  calls  have  occasioned  notable  improvement  in  the 
total  life  of  the  churches.  There  is  space  for  one  in  condensed  form.  The 
pastor  at  Merrimack,  New  Hampshire,  writes  that  he  shrank  from  the  endeavor, 
but  setting  himself  to  it,  a  church  that  contributed  $76  two  years  ago  paid  in 
$482  last  year,  and  the  full  apportionment  of  $645  is  assured  for  1920.  As  a 
result,  people  who  had  little  interest  in  the  church  are  now  devoted.  Some  50 
are  enrolled  in  three  Bible  Study  Groups,  where  none  cared  before.  He  adds : 

“We  are  receiving  more  than  twofold  value  for  every  dollar  we  have  con¬ 
tributed.  .  .  .  This  church  is  beginning  to  show  real  signs  of.  life.  ...  I  can  truth¬ 
fully  say  that  the  Congregational  World  Movement  is  the  best  boon  that  ever  came 
to  this  church,  and  if  the  people  will  only  keep  step  with  that  Movement,  I  am  con¬ 
fident  that  we  can  build  up  a  strong,  vigorous  church.’^ 

Jesus  was  right.  It  is  more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive.” 


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THE  SURVEY 


A. M»  260 


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THE  MISSING  MILLIONS 

HAT,  are  there  still  empty  bags?  Is.not  the  increase  of  102  per  cent 
sufficient?  If  there  were  an  increase  of  102  per  cent  in  missionary 
resources,  it  would  be.  But  why  isn’t  there  if  the  gifts  are  102  per 
cent  higher?  (1)  Not  all  of  the  102  per  cent  goes  to  missionary  treasuries. 
Educational  institutions  and  miscellaneous  causes  receive  14  per  cent.  (2) 
The  increase  applies  to  but  one  source  of  receipts,  namely,  contributions,  not  to 
legacies,  funds,  etc.,  yielding  heretofore  about  half  of  the  total.  Hence  the 
increase  in  missionary  resources  was  but  45  per  cent.  This  leaves  $1,500,000 
short  of  urgent  need. 

The  supply  of  this  shortage  is  not  sought  for  the  purpose  of  enlarging 
our  work,  desperate  as  is  the  condition  of  the  world,  but  for  maintaining 
the  established  activities  with  such  development  as  cannot  be  avoided  where 
the  sacrificial  investments  of  the  past  have  left  us  rich  privileges  of  the 
harvest. 


New  Gifts 


Income 


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Cost  ; 

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The  smaller  chest  represents  the  total  prewar  receipts  for  missions,  with  two  bags  showing 
two  sources  for  filling  it,  half  from  income  of  funds,  legacies,  etc.,  and  half  from  gifts  of  the 
living.  The  larger  chest  represents  additional  money  required  for  postwar  needs  for  the  same 
work,  plus  $625,000  for  causes  not  in  “  prewar  costs.”  This  chest  is  larger  because  the  additional 
money  needed  is  $500,000  more  than  total  “  prewar  costs.”  There  is  but  one  bag.  because  funds 
are  the  accumulation  of  generations  for  which  we  cannot  wait.  Therefore,  contributions  needed 
are  the  former  $1,500,000  plus  $3,500,000,  or  $5,000,000,  i.e.,  more  than  three  times  prewar 
contributions. 


The  consequences  of  this  shortage  are  briefly:  the  American  Board — one 
year’s  debt  $242,000 — necessity  of  drastic  retrenchment  unless  the  gap  can 
be  closed.  The  American  Missionary  Association — physical  plant  deteriorated 
in  some  instances  to  the  point  of  collapse  and  condemnation ;  cut  from  current 
budget,  $62,000.  The  Home  Missionary  Society — 562  fewer  mission  stations 
and  churches;  344  missionaries  dropped;  debt  $20,000  (see  page  27).  Other 
Societies,  similar  conditions.  The  dead,  from  whom  have  come  our  receipts 
from  “  other  sources,”  cannot  respond  to  our  appeal.  The  one  resort  is  to 
ask  the  living  to  heighten  the  Romance  of  the  Treasury,  go  the  second  mile,” 
and  provide  for  the  critical  needs  set  forth  in  this  Survey. 


THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY 

ASSOCIATION 


Through  this  society  we  Congregationalists  minister  to  certain  racial 
groups  whose  need  of  friendly  help  is  greater  than  that  of  most  Americans: 

The  Indian,  climbing  the  difficult  path  to  civilization. 

The  Negro,  toiling  up  from  slavery  to  political  and  economic  freedom. 

The  American  Highlander,  hemmed  in  from  modern  life  by  his  south¬ 
ern  mountains. 

The  Chinese  and  Japanese,  unwelcome  guests  on  the  Pacific. 

The  IMexican  within  our  border,  so  often  treated  with  contempt. 

The  Porto  Kican,  whose  beautiful,  fruitful  island — overcrowded, 
haunted  by  poverty  and  disease — has  lately  come  under  our  fiag. 

Friendly  help  to  these  neighbors  is  supplied  through  noble  gifts  and 
sacrificial  service  in  hundreds  of  missions,  churches,  and  outstations,  in  half 
a  dozen  Christian  colleges  and  scores  of  Christian  schools — normal,  indus¬ 
trial  and  agricultural — by  social  and  community  effort  and  by  a  ministry  of 
healing  in  clinic  and  hospital  for 
tens  of  thousands.  It  has  thus  be¬ 
come  one  of  the  foremost  agencies 
for  human  betterment  known  to 
the  nation. 

It  is  proposed  to  mark  the  Sev¬ 
enty-fifth  Anniversary  of  the  As¬ 
sociation  by  a  notable  meeting  in 
New  London,  Conn.,  November 
9th  and  10th.  Pastors  and  teach¬ 
ers  are  urged  to  rehearse  in  the 
ears  of  their  young  people  the 
thrilling  story  of  the  Association, 
placing  the  name  Amistad  beside 

that  of  Mayflower.  the  amistad 


THREE  YEAR  BUDGET  COMPARISON 


General  Expenses  . 

Southern  Schools  . 

Negro  Churches  . . 

General  Field  Account  . 

Porto  Rico  . 

Indian  Missions  . 

Oriental  Missions  . 

Mexican,  etc . 

Hawaii  . 

Mormon  . 

Contingent,  detailed  in  Survey 


1919-1920 

1920-1921 

1921-1922 

$103,645 

$106,080 

$115,741 

220,971 

325,705 

303,595 

34,000 

43,000 

43,500 

38,135 

64,000 

48,150 

21,760 

30,300 

30,280 

31,391 

37,521 

39,110 

16,250 

23,000 

14,000 

23,958 

18,290 

13,081 

4,000 

6,500 

3,000 

15,604 

6,500 

.280,000 

275,100 

$494,110 

$950,000 

$892,057 

Note:  (1)  the  increases  necessary  in  current  work,  1920  and  1921;  (2)  the  cut  in 
appropriations,  1921  and  1922,  and  (3)  that  none  of  the  items  contingent  on  receipts 
could  be  undertaken  in  1921,  leaving  them  the  more  urgent  in  1922.  Loss  of  income 
through  omitted  dividends  necessitated  using  legacies  to  avoid  debt  and  a  cut  of  $62,000 
in  the  regular  work  in  1922.  The  contingent  items,  as  important  as  the  regular,  are  all 
listed  in  later  pages. 


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THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION 


A.M.262 


THE  NEGRO 


Numbers  and  Distribution 

HE  Census  Bureau  announces 
that  in  1920  there  were  ten  and 
one-half  millions  of  Negroes  in 
the  United  States,  which  means  that 
every  tenth  man  among  us  is  of 
African  blood.  It  also  states  that, 
notwithstanding  the  recent  migra¬ 
tions  of  colored  workmen  from  the 
South  to  northern  industrial  centers, 
85%  of  our  Negro  population  is  still 
to  be  found  south  of  the  Mason  and 
Dixon  line.  Amid  this  vast  multi¬ 
tude,  nearly  nine  millions  in  number, 
there  is  room  at  one  and  the  same 
time  for  two  opposite  streams  of  ten¬ 
dency — a  stream  of  progress  and  a 
stream  of  retrogression. 

Progress 

The  onward  and  upward  movement 
of  the  race  in  recent  years  has  been 
conspicuous  and  most  gratifying.  Of 
this  splendid  advance  we  have  evi¬ 
dence  on  every  side.  Illiteracy  is 
diminished.  A  steady  gain  in  thrift, 
industry,  intelligence  and  general 
well-being,  are  made  evident  by  in¬ 
creased  farm  holdings,  industrial  op¬ 
erations,  commercial  enterprises,  sav¬ 
ings  bank  accounts,  etc.  The  number 
of  men  and  women  of  genuine  light 
and  leadership  is  steadily  increasing, 
while  some  of  African  blood  by  not-, 
able  achievements  in  the  world  of  art, 
science,  music,  education,  letters  and 
statesmanship,  have  won  for  them¬ 
selves  places  of  world-wide  -  dis¬ 
tinction. 

In  this  forward  movement  the 
churches  and  schools  supported  by 
The  American  Missionary  Association, 
with  others  of  the  same  class,  have 
had  a  large  part.  The  Jones  Report 
to  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Edu¬ 
cation  declares  that  “  with  the  ex¬ 
ception  of  the  state  agricultural  and 
mechanical  schools,  they  have  fur¬ 
nished  the  only  facilities  for  indus¬ 
trial  and  agricultural  training.  Above 
all  they  have  been  and  still  are  the 
chief  agencies  for  the  development  of 


sound  ideas  of  life,  physical,  mental 
and  moral.” 

Retrogression 

While  all  that  has  been  said  about 
the  progress  of  the  Negro  is  unques¬ 
tionably  true,  the  very  opposite  is  at 
the  same  time  also  true.  There  is  no 
reason  to  doubt  the  substantial  accu¬ 
racy  of  Mr.  Howard  Snyder’s  Plan¬ 
tation  Pictures  in  which  he  has  re¬ 
cently  given  to  the  readers  of  the 
Atlantic  Monthly  and  the  Century 
Magazine  an  account  of  the  condition 
and  character  of  the  Negroes  among 
whom  he  lives.  A  shiftless,  indolent, 
insolent,  irresponsible  set  they  are — 
dirty,  lazy,  disorderly  to  the  last  de¬ 
gree,  desperately  ignorant  and  appal¬ 
lingly  immoral — a  folk  to  whom 
religion  seems  to  be  a  mere  emotional 
experience,  having  little  or  nothing  to 
do  with  right  conduct. 

It  is  to  be  feared  that  the  people 
he  described  are  not  exceptional  but 
typical  of  millions  of  neglected 
Negroes  in  various  parts  of  the  South 
who  have  never  felt  the  first  breath 
of  the  modem  spirit  and  whose  con¬ 
dition  is  no  better  today — is  possibly 
even  worse — than  that  of  their 
fathers  fifty  years  ago.  Such  an  ele¬ 
ment  in  the  population — especially 
when  it  is  numerically  large  and  even, 
in  some  regions,  a  majority — can  be 
nothing  less  than  a  menace  of  the 
gravest  sort  to  entire  communities 
both  to  person  and  to  property.  So 
long  as  such  conditions  obtain  it  is 
impossible  to  expect  any  great  degree 
of  prosperity  and  happiness.  The 
foremost  white  citizens  of  the  South 
in  increasing  numbers  are  becoming 
keenly  alive  to  the  perils  of  the  pres¬ 
ent  situation  and  are  earnestly  ad¬ 
vocating  the  same  thing  that  the  edi¬ 
tor  of  the  Atlantic  Monthly  suggests 
as  the  single  sovereign  remedy  for  the 
present  lamentable  condition,  to  wit : 
‘‘  Schools  and  more  schools.” 

School  Privileges 

Public  schools  in  many  mral  parts 


A.  M.  263 


THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION 


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of  the  South  are,  even  for  white  chil¬ 
dren,  none  too  good ;  for  colored  chil¬ 
dren  they  are  simply  wretched.  The 
am_ount  per  pupil  expended  respec¬ 
tively  for  colored  and  white  children 
by  the  counties  where  a  dozen  of  our 
A.  M.  A.  schools  are  located  varies 
from  $1.13  for  colored  and  $7.03  for 
white  in  the  worst,  to  $11.53  for  col¬ 
ored  and  $27.41  for  white  in  the  best 
counties. 


HAND  SCHOOL,  TOUGALOO— FOURTH 
GRADE 


Teacher  Training 

The  most  serious  of  all  the  diffi¬ 
culties  in  maintaining  an  effective 
system  of  public  schools  for  colored 
children  is  the  lack  of  properly 
trained  teachers.  Only  colored  teach¬ 
ers  are  permitted  by  law  and  the  op¬ 
portunities  for  teacher-training  pro¬ 
vided  by  the  state  for  colored  youth 
are  few  and  meager.  In  Georgia  and 
Alabama,  for  example,  70%  of  the 
colored  school  teachers  have  tempo¬ 
rary  emergency  certificates,  represent¬ 
ing  a  schooling  of  less  than  eight 
elementary  grades.  For  trained  teach¬ 
ers  the  colored  schools  of  the  South 
must  depend  almost  wholly  upon  pri¬ 
vate  institutions  founded  and  sup¬ 
ported  by  northern  philanthropy, 
among  which  our  A.  M.  A.  schools 
have  a  leading  place. 

Summary  of  Work  and  Needs  Among 

Negroes 

I  The  most  extensive  work  of  the  A. 

I  M.  A.  is  that  for  the  Negroes.  In 
J\  church  work  there  are  72  mission¬ 


aries,  15  churches  with  13,500  mem¬ 
bers  and  8,000  in  the  Sunday 
Schools.  The  full  apportionment  of 
the  Association  would  hardly  provide 
any  increase  here,  great  though  the 
needs  are. 

In  educational  work  there  are  32 
schools;  5  elementary,  19  secondary, 
and  8  higher.  Here  deterioration  of 
the  plant  has  been  such  as  to  cry  to 
heaven  for  relief.  If  the  full  five 
million  dollars  is  raised  it  will  be 
possible  to  appropriate  approximately 
the  following  sums : 

For  rebuilding  the  Girls’  Dormi¬ 
tory  at  Moorhead,  Mississippi,  de¬ 
stroyed  by  cyclone  in  1918,  $15,000 ; 
dormitory  at  Troy,  N.  C.,  destroyed 
by  fire  in  1920,  $12,000.  For  com¬ 
pleting  building,  standing  unfinished 
for  several  years  at  iMemphis,  Ten¬ 
nessee,  $15,000.  For  replacing  barns 
now  collapsing  at  Cappahosic,  Va., 
and  Mt.  Hermoii,  Mississippi,  $15,000. 
For  a  small  beginning  on  repairs  in 
])uildings  in  critical  condition  at 
Straight  College,  $15,000.  For  pro¬ 
viding  Domestic  Science  Building, 
Marion,  Ala.,  where  three-fourths  of 
the  candidates  cannot  be  taken  in  the 
tiny  kitchen,  $13,000 ;  and  for  a  dor¬ 
mitory  for  boys  at  Dorchester  Acad¬ 
emy,  Ga.,  where  the  far-aways  walk 
as  much  as  seventeen  miles  daily, 
there  being  no  dormitory  room  for 
them,  $11,000.  For  the  replacing  of 
demolished  academic  building  at  Tou- 
galoo  College,  $45,000.  None  of  these 
can  be  touched  out  of  the  current 
budget. 

The  supervisor  of  white  elemen¬ 
tary  rural  schools  in  one  of  the 
Southern  states  rex)orts :  ‘‘The 
negro  schoolhouses  are  miserable, 
beyond  all  description.  They  are 
usually  without  comfort,  equipment, 
propel*  lighting  or  sanitation.  Most 
of  the  teachers  are  absolutely  un¬ 
trained  and  have  been  given  certifi¬ 
cates  only  because  it  is  necessary  to 
have  some  kind  of  a  Negro  teacher. 

I  have  found  only  one  in  which  the 
highest  class  knew  the  multiplication 
table.  ’  ’ 


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A.  M.  264 


PORTO  RICO 


A  POPULATION  of  a  million 
and  a  quarter,  about  the  same 
as  that  of  Connecticut,  is 
crowded  into  a  space  smaller  by  one- 
sixth  than  the  nutmeg  state.  Nine- 
tenths  of  these  are  peons.  Of  indus¬ 
tries  the  island  has  very  few.  There 
is  some  manufacture  of  tobacco  and 
cigars,  a  very  little  weaving  of  hats 
and  lace-making,  but  the  chief  em¬ 
ployments  are  those  of  agriculture.  ' 

Four  centuries  of  colonial  life 
under  Spanish  rule  have  left  their 
stamp  upon  the  people.  They  have 
neither  in  thought  nor  in  language 
any  real  equivalent  for  such  words 
as  commonwealth,”  or  home.” 
They  do  not  understand  democracy. 
They  have  no  traditions  of  great  men 
and  great  achievements.  Patriotism 
is  a  flower  recently  planted  and 
thus  far  of  scanty  growth.  Religion 
means  either  the  performance  of  cer¬ 
tain  rites  and  ceremonies  demanded 
by  decrepit  and  corrupt  types  of 
Catholicism,  or  else  it  means  a  matter 
of  opinion;  of  the  spiritual  life  and 
all  that  is  involved  in  following 
Jesus  Christ  the  average  Porto  Rican 
has  but  a  faint  conception. 

Missionary  work  for  Porto  Rico  is 
divided  among  the  denominations  in 
most  brotherly  fashion.  Each  has  its 
allotted  place  for  which  it  is  entirely 
responsible.  Preachers  are  trained  in 
a  Union  Theological  Seminary.  We 
Congregationalists  have  a  parish  of 
our  own  in  a  melilla,  or  slum  portion 


ARRIVAL  OF  PATIENT  AT  RYDER 
MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL 


of  the  city  of  Santurce,  and  we  are 
also  solely  responsible  for  a  section 
(with  a  population  of  about  125,000) 
at  the  extreme  eastern  end  of  the 
island  in  the  province  of  Humacao. 

We  minister  to  the  Porto  Ricans 
by  means  of  a  group  of  churches  and 
outstations,  with  Sunday  schools  and 
extensive  community  service.  At 
Blanche  Kellogg  Institute,  in  San¬ 
turce,  we  have  an  excellent  training 
school  for  girls  who  are  there  fitted 
to  become  Christian  workers  and 
home-makers ;  at  this  point  is  also 
located  the  Lucy  Elizabeth  Fair¬ 
banks  Settlement  House,  where  a 
most  gracious  and  beautiful  work  goes 
on  for  the  poor  of  the  community, 
which  includes  industrial  training 
for  children  and  a  clinic  for  babies; 
and  at  Humacao  we  have  a  very 
wonderful  work  in  the  Ryder  Memo¬ 
rial  Hospital,  where,  in  the  course 
of  the  last  ten  years  our  resident 
physician  has  prescribed  no  less 
than  10,000  times  for  hookworm; 
where  we  minister  annually  in  clinic  , 
and  in  wards  to  some  24,000  sufferers,  J 
healing  the  lame,  the  sick  and  the 
blind  and  those  with  various  tor¬ 
ments,  and  thus  practicing  tlie  gospel 
of  love  and  service  which  we  proclaim 
to  the  waiting  multitudes  of  patients 
in  the  hospital  portico  and  in  all  our 
churches  and  missions.  The  Porto 
Rican  work  is  very  flourishing.  It 
would  be  hard  to  imagine  how  any 
missionary  effort  could  be  more  fruit¬ 
ful. 

In  church  work  there  are  2  min¬ 
isters,  6  woman  missionaries  and  14 
native  workers  serving  through  11 
churches  with  900  members.  In 
medical  service  there  are  1  physician, 

4  American  nurses  and  4  Porto 
Rican  nurses  in  training.  The  needs 
are  many  and  urgent.  If  the  total 
apportionment  is  raised  we  shall  be 
able  to  provide  for  a  dispensary  and 
clinic  now  unprovided  for  except  in 
the  physician’s  home,  and  a  kitchen 
and  laundry  for  which  there  is 
nothing ;  total  cost  $25,000. 


A.  M.265  THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION  S9 

OUR  ORIENTAL  NEIGHBORS 


HE  Oriental  is  here  and  by  our 
invitation.  Eirst  came  the  Chi¬ 
nese  in  large  numbers  to  do  our 
hard  work.  Chinatown  in  San 
Francisco  was  built  and  smaller 
Chinatowns  in  many  other  cities. 
Here  our  first  Oriental  work  was  be¬ 
gun  in  1852  and  we  were  the  first  on 
the  field.  Chinatown  has  gradually 
grown  smaller  but  the  need  of  work 
for  that  race  has  not  diminished.  We 
have  now  nine  missions  to  the  Chi¬ 


ful  and  challenging  opportunities. 

The  serious  problem  before  us  is 
that  of  housing.  We  have  crowded 
them  into  impossible  rooms  not  only 
insufficient  but  unattractive.  The 
J apanese  church  shown  here  is  a  store 
room.  A  Sunday  School  of  150  chil¬ 
dren,  a  church  service  of  125  and 
evening  schools  during  the  week 
are  conducte  d — all  in  a  small 
store  room.  Many  of  the  Oriental 
mission  houses  are  no  better.  Thou- 


JAPANESE  CHURCH 


nese.  The  work  has  been  important 
not  merely  for  what  it  has  accom¬ 
plished  for  the  people  here  but  for 
the  missionary  zeal  which  has  been 
built  up  among  them  for  their  home 
land. 

Then  came  the  Japanese,  forming 
what  is  now  known  as  the  Japanese 
problem.  Alert,  intelligent,  enter¬ 
prising,  anxious  for  Americanization 
and  responsive  to  the  Christian  Gospel 
• — they  afford  us  one  of  our  most  hope- 


sands  of  these  Orientals  look  to  us 
for  the  fuller  expression  of  the  Gospel 
of  the  Brotherhood  of  Christ. 

The  full  apportionment  would 
allow  a  beginning  toward  providing 
buildings  for  our  poorly  housed 
Japanese  and  Chinese  missions,  pei*- 
haps  $25,000. 

The  Hawaiian  Board  is  affiliated 
with  the  Association  and  is  doing  a 
supremely  important  work,  especial¬ 
ly  among  the  Orientals. 


THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION 


A. M*  266 


S  JO 


fifty  years.  Gradually  our  work  has 
l)een  reduced  until  now  we  have 
but  two  schools  for  the  Highlanders 
looking  to  us  for  support — Pleasant 
Hill  and  Piedmont.  It  is  the  con¬ 
sensus  of  opinion,  both  that  of  the 
state  authorities  and  our  own  corps 
of  workers,  as  well  as  the  local  resi¬ 
dents,  that  Saluda  Seminary  no 


mountains  for  Chidstian  education. 

The  needs  of  Piedmont  College 
have  been  well  advertised  but  they 
can  hardly  be  exaggerated.  The  col¬ 
lege  will  close  the  year  with  a  large 
debt.  Its  students  are  of  the  highest 
character  and  ability.  The  college 
sends  them  forth  not  only  scholars 
but  Christians. 


THE  HIGHLANDERS 


GIVE  THEM  A  CHANCE 


the  beginnings  of  Berea, 
the  Association  lias  been  carry- 
'  ing  on  the  liighest  type  of  edu¬ 
cational  work  among  the  Highlanders 
of  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  North 
Carolina  and  Georgia.  Gradually  the 
educational  standards  have  been 
lifted  up,  thousands  of  the  best  young 
people  of  the  mountains  have  been 
educated  and  moved  out.  The  late 
war  revealed  to  us  how  vast  is  the  il¬ 
literacy  and  the  ignorance  of  Ameri¬ 
canism  among  this  people.  It  is 
doubtful  if  any  work  in  the  country 
has  brought  back  better  returns  than 
our  investments  here  for  more  than 


longer  functions  as  a  missionary 
vschool.  The  community  henceforth 
will  assume  the  responsibility  for  the 
high  school  education  of  its  own  chil¬ 
dren.  Saluda,  as  an  A.  M.  A.  school, 
will  be  closed  but  the  work  will  go  on. 

The  money  received  from  the  sale 
of  the  Saluda  buildings,  together 
with  a  special  legacy  for  mountain 
work,  will  be  used  at  Pleasant  Hill 
and  all  our  energies  concentrated 
there.  The  present  condition  of  the 
plant,  however,  will  necessitate  much 
larger  investments  than  these  re¬ 
sources  supply.  It  must  be  made  the 
outstanding  school  in  the  heart  of  the 


A. M. 267 


THE  AMERICAN  MISSIONARY  ASSOCIATION 


sn 


THE  INDIANS  AND  THE  MEXICANS 


HE  Indian  is  as  independent  in 
spirit  as  in  the  days  when  he 
was  lord  of  America.  But  he 
lias  not  learned  to  take  care  of  him¬ 
self  and  shows  little  initiative. 

The  Protestant  work  on  four  reser¬ 
vations  in  the  Dakotas  has  been  al¬ 
located  to  the  Congregationalists. 
From  the  reservations,  those  who  can 
afford  it  send  their  children  to  Santee 
Normal  Training  School.  From 
Santee,  a  large  per  cent  of  the  best 
Indian  leaders  have  come.  This  year 
Frank  Black  Hoop,  an  alumnus,  re¬ 
turns  as  the  leader  of  the  band  and 
instructor  of  music.  He  was  gradu¬ 
ated  from  Hampton  last  June,  and 
while  there  led  the  great  Hampton 


PITILTP  FRAZIER  AND  AlDTlIEPt 


Band.  In  another  year,  Pliilip 
Frazier,  a  Santee  alumnus,  will  hnisli 
at  Oberlin  College,  and  return  as  a 
leader  among  his  people.  His  mother 
still  thinks  and  talks  entirely  in  Da¬ 
kota.  The  affection  and  reverence 
Philip  has  for  her  is  an  object  lesson 
to  millions  of  American  sons  and 
daughters. 

Unless  the  five  million  apportion¬ 
ment  should  be  exceeded,  it  will  not 
be  possible  to  enlarge  or  improve 
either  the  Indian  or  Mexican  work.  A 
merely  casual  reading  of  these  dispas¬ 
sionate  pages  is  enough  to  show  how 
modest  is  the  five  million  apportion¬ 
ment  as  it  affects  the  A.  M.  A. 

One  out  of  every  eight  Mexicans 


on  the  American  continent  is  now  re¬ 
ported  to  be  on  United  States  soil. 
They  are  scattered  in  every  border 
city,  and  are  much  in  evidence  in 
cities  like  San  Antonio  and  El  Paso. 
But  many  of  them  are  scattered  in 
little  adobe  villages  throughout  New 
Mexico  from  ten  to  thirty  miles  from 
railroad  centers.  Here  thev  live  a 
primitive  group  life,  knowing  little  of 
the  real  values  of  life.  The  only 
open  door  to  these  priceless  treasures 
are  the  small  and  inadequate  mission 
schools. 

The  American  Missionary  Associa¬ 
tion  is  making  five  contributions  to 
the  uplift  of  these  Mexican  people  by 
maintaining  four  village  schools,  a 
settlement  house  and  a  boarding  in¬ 
dustrial  school  for  boys  and  girls. 

Thirteen  hundred  and  sixty-five 
dollars  runs  one  of  these  village 
schools.  The  parents,  very  poor,  show 
their  gratitude  through  contributions 
in  chickens,  eggs  and  fire  wood. 

Rio  Grande  Industrial  School 

Five  miles  from  the  beautiful  city 
of  Albuquerque,  on  the  Rio  Grande 
River,  stand  two  commodious  build¬ 
ings  that  form  the  living  quarters  and 
recitation  rooms  of  sixty  Mexican 
young  men  and  women.  The  school 
l)ossesses  IGO  acres  of  splendid  farm 
land  undei*  the  cai'e  of  a  trained 
fai'inei’  who  is  educating  the  boys  in 
belter  methods  adapted  to  the  needs 
of  the  Southwest.  There  is  also  a 
Manual  Ti'aining  School  where  the 
boys  are  taught  the  best  methods  of 
wood  and  iron  work,  and  the  girls 
educated  in  faian,  dairy  and  domestic 
science. 

Some  ten  years  ago,  there  came 
from  the  village  school  at  Cubero  a 
Mexican  girl,  one  of  the  eight  chil¬ 
dren  of  a  widow.  She  finished  at  Rio 
Grande  and  secured  a  scholarship  at 
Schauffler  Training  School.  She  has 
returned  to  Cubero,  married  the  best 
man  in  the  town  and  maintains  the 
neatest,  cleanest  and  most  refined 
home  in  the  community. 


CONGREGATIONAL 

EDUCATION  SOCIETY 


niS  SOCIETY  co-operates  with 
our  churches  in  training  our 
entire  Congregational  constitu- 
('11  cy  for  Christian  living  and  ser¬ 
vice.  It  outlines  the  religious  educa¬ 
tion  program,  leads  in  its  realization 
and  co-operates  with  the  Publishing 
Society  in  furnishing  any  religious 
education  literature.  Its  work  under¬ 
lies  that  of  all  our  missionary  socie¬ 
ties  and  agencies. 

THE  CHURCH  SCHOOL 

HE  field  of  operation  is  the  743,- 
000  members  of  our  6,000  Sun¬ 
day  Schools.  The  Society  seeks 
to  awaken  our  churches  to  their  op¬ 
portunity,  to  assist  local  church  lead¬ 
ers  in  planning  their  program,  to  fur¬ 
nish  study  courses  for  training  teach¬ 
ers  and  leaders,  to  see  that  best  grad¬ 
ed  lessons  are  used,  best  equipment 
l)rovided,  the  whole  program  unified. 

With  children  and  youth,  where 
work  counts  for  most,  the  effort  of  the 
Society  centers.  The  supreme  oppor¬ 
tunity  of  the  church  to  claim  the  fu¬ 
ture  is  with  its  school,  from  which 
•  comes  75%  of  all  increase  in  church 
membership,  and  from  whose  ranks 
40%  are  now  lost  to  the  church,  large¬ 
ly  through  avoidable  inefficiency, 
and  chiefly  during  the  adolescent  pe¬ 
riod.  We  are  wholly  without  expert 
guidance  in  this  critical  period  and  to 
supply  this  serious  deficiency  we  have 
inclu(ied  in  the  budget,  contingent  on 
increased  receipts,  ‘‘  Intermediate 
Church  School  Secretary,”  $6,000. 

Two  of  the  most  timely  movements 
of  the  day  for  meeting  the  lack  of  ad¬ 
equate  religious  education  are  the  re¬ 
ligious  day  school  and  the  daily 
vacation  Bible  school.  Other  denomi¬ 
nations  are  furnishing  literature  and 
promotional  secretaries.  For  this  com¬ 
pelling  challenge  we  ask  $11,000. 


YOUNG  PEOPLE 

HIS  department  seeks  to  help 
our  churches  into  successful 
work  with  young  people : 

By  developing  sympathetic  local 
leadership. 

By  helping  our  churches  really  to 
understand  young  people,  giving 
them  a  much  larger  place  in  the  life 
of  the  church  and  developing  a  pro¬ 
gram  intended  to  enlist  them  perma- 
nentlv  in  Christian  service. 

By  suggesting  programs  for  differ¬ 
ent  groups,  plans  whereby  these  may 
be  co-ordinated  in  the  local  church 
and  linked  up  to  the  denominational 
program  through  the  Pilgrim  Federa¬ 
tion. 

By  conducting  denominational  ral¬ 
lies  and  institutes  at  interdenomina¬ 
tional  gatherings,  promoting  young 
people’s  meetings  in  connection  with 
District  Associations,  State  Confer¬ 
ences  and  National  Councils,  and  by 
planning  special  week-end  institutes 
and  summer  conferences.  Only  $450 
a  year  ( !)  has  been  available  for  this 
strategic  service  and  the  work  has  had 
to  be  done  incidentally  by  those  bur¬ 
dened  with  other  responsibilities.  The 
young  people  deserve  better  of  us.  For 
the  securing  of  a  Young  People’s  Sec¬ 
retary  and  the  support  of  the  depart¬ 
ment  we  ask  an  increase  of  $8,000. 

STUDENTS 

HE  task  here  is  to  reach  for 
Christ  and  Christian  service, 
primarily  through  the  efforts 
of  student  pastors,  our  20,000  Con¬ 
gregational  students  at  tax-sup¬ 
ported  educational  institutions. 
There  are  in  the  United  States  not 
less  than  30  educational  institu¬ 
tions,  aside  from  our  Christian 
schools,  in  each  of  which  there  are 
over  200  Congregational  students. 


A,  M.269 


THE  EDUCATION  SOCIETY 


S  J3 


From,  these  are  to  come  leaders  of 
American  life  in  all  its  phases.  From 
them  we  may  secure  splendid  religious 
leadership  if  their  interest  is  con¬ 
served  and  directed.  We  now  aid  in 
the  support  of  21  student  pastors.  We 
snould  have  not  less  than  27  such 
leaders.  In  this  budget  we  ask  for 
support  to  place  six  more,  in  universi¬ 
ty  centers,  still  leaving  teachers’  col¬ 
leges  untouched,  calling  for  an  in¬ 
crease  of  $13,000. 

In  many  such  institutions  as  those 
at  Ann  Arbor  and  East  Lansing, 
Michigan,  equipment  is  utterly  in¬ 
adequate  to  handle  student  work. 
The  local  churches  cannot  meet  the 
demands.  Our  student  pastors  need 
homes  and  facilities  without  which 
spiritual  values  arp  sacrificed.  To 
make  a  small  start  here  we  place  in 
our  budget,  contingent  on  receipts, 
$34,000. 

A  supreme  aim  of  the  student  de¬ 
partment  is  to  enlist  our  choicest 
youth  for  Christian  leadership.  No 
subject  received  such  serious  consid¬ 
eration  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
National  Council.  In  co-operation 
with  the  special  Recruiting  Commis¬ 
sion  appointed  by  the  National  Coun¬ 
cil,  and  with  the  help  of  the  Mission¬ 
ary  Societies,  State  Conferences,  etc., 
a  persistent  effort  will  be  made  to  stir 
our  entire  membership,  to  interest 
every  home,  church,  minister.  Church 
School  teacher,  and  young  people’s 
worker  in  united  effort  to  secure  re¬ 
cruits  for  Christian  leadership.  The 
National  ('Ouncil  antlioiazed  expendi¬ 
tures  up  to  $15,000  for  recruiting. 
This  is  a  legitimate  charge  againsr 
This  Society.  We  do  not  see  the  pos¬ 
sibility  of  including  more  than 
$11,780,  an  increase  of  $3,500. 

The  original  function  of  this  Socie¬ 
ty  was  aiding  students  in  preparation 
for  the  ministry.  The  amount  we 
now  give  or  loan  is  pitiably  small, 
while  some  men  and  many  women 
are  denied  aid  altogether.  The  bud¬ 
get  calls  for  $17,900,  an  increase  of 
$9,000. 


SOCIAL  SERVICE 

INCE  it  is  the  task  of  the  church 
to  permeate  all  human  life 
with  the  spirit  and  program  of 
Jesus  Christ,  it  is  the  aim  of  this  de¬ 
partment  : 

1.  To  promote  through  institutes, 
conferences  and  all  available  means 
that  spirit  of  brotherhood  which  alone 
makes  possible  a  solution  of  our  burn¬ 
ing  problems. 

2.  To  supply  reliable  data  of  suc¬ 
cessful  social  experiments  and  critical 
situations. 

3.  To  suggest  ways  and  means  of 
building  a  better  social  order. 

4.  To  promote  discussion  groups 
and  open  forums  in  our  churches. 

5.  To  provide  a  manual  of  social 
service  for  the  local  church,  with 
leaflets  adapting  the  program  to  spe¬ 
cial  types  of  community. 

6.  To  secure  recognition  for  the 
social  point  of  view  in  curricula, 
teacher  training  and  programs  for 
young  people. 

7.  To  prepare  and  suggest  study 
courses  for  social  study  groups. 

More  and  better  literature  is  in¬ 
sistently  called  for  by  pastors.  To 
supply  this,  with  the  consequent  ad¬ 
ditional  clerical  work,  we  ask  a  modest 
increase  of  $2,000. 

MISS  ONARY  EDUCATION 

UR  program  of  religious  educa¬ 
tion  must  be  inspired  by  the 
spirit  of  service  or  it  fails  to  be 
truly  Christian. 

The  Missionary  Edm'ation  Depart¬ 
ment  works  witli  all  our  missionary 
societies.  Us  function  is  that  of  d(‘- 
veloping  a  j)i’ograin  of  st  udy  and  of 
training  in  service  and  giving  tliat 
shall  create  vital  interest  in  the  work 
of  all. 

This  Department  works  through 
personal  interviews,  correspondence, 
conferences,  institutes,  addresses  in 
churches,  and  the  distribution  of  lit¬ 
erature. 

Some  of  the  specific  ways  of  work¬ 
ing  are  as  follows: 

1.  The  Missionary  Education 


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Chart  plan  for  Church  Schools.  (Sec 
leaflet,  Missionary  Education  in 
the  Church  School.”) 

2.  Suggested  plans  and  methods 
for  special  programs  in  individual 
schools  by  correspondents  or  person¬ 
al  interview. 

3.  Publication  of  the  Manual  of 
Principles  and  Methods  of  Missionary 
Education,  manuals  on  the  Graded 
Program  and  leafllets  on  special 
topics. 

4.  Promotion  of  local  Schools  of 
Missions  and  of  conferences  and  in¬ 
stitutes,  especially  during  the  sum¬ 
mer. 

5.  Distributing  information  as  to 
plans  and  methods  that  have  worked. 

For  constructive  work  in  this  new 
department  of  such  vital  consequence 
to  the  entire  denominational  program 
a  little  more  money  is  needed  for 
clerical  work  and  printing,  increase, 
$2,000. 

DISTRICT  AND  FIELD  WORK 

N  addition  to  the  fleld  work 
constantly  being  done  by  gen¬ 
eral  and  departmental  secre¬ 
taries,  there  are  ten  district  secre¬ 
taries  commissioned  to  carry  this  en¬ 


tire  religious  education  program  to 
our  churches.  These  secretaries  as¬ 
sist  state  conferences  and  local 
churches  in  all  phases  of  work  repre¬ 
sented  by  this  Society.  The  personal 
attention  of  these  secretaries  is  given 
to  religious  education  problems,  plans 
and  programs.  Their  offices  are 
equipped  to  meet  local  needs.  They 
are  freely  at  the  service  of  our 
churches. 

Calls  from  the  churches  and  Sun¬ 
day  Schools  for  more  help  are  insist¬ 
ent.  Two  additional  workers  are 
urgently  demanded  at  once.  The 
splendid  success  of  the  work  increases 
expenses.  Moreover,  when  we  must 
replace  men  or  employ  new  ones,  our 
old  salary  scale  is  not  adequate  to  se¬ 
cure  satisfactory  men.  Wisdom  de¬ 
mands  that  the  budget  be  lifted  from 
$51,099  to  $68,099,  an  increase  of 
$17,000. 

ADMINISTRATION  AND  PUBLICITY 

ROWING  work  calls  for  en¬ 
largement  of  oversight  bud¬ 
gets.  Therefore  for  increased 
rent,  clerical  help  and  printing  we 
are  compelled  to  ask  for  an  increase 
of  $5,000. 


THE  BUDGET 

1921 

1922 

General  Administration,  Rent,  Publicity,  Salaries  (see  p.  14) 

$29,755 

$34,755 

Social  Service  Department  (p.  13) . 

12,102 

14,102 

Missionary  Education  Department  (p.  13) . 

12,846 

14,846  ■ 

Student  Department  (p.  12) . 

8,280 

11,780 

Young  People’s  Department  (p.  12) . 

450 

8,450 

Student  Aid  (p.  13) . - . 

8,900 

17,900 

University  Pastorates  (p.  13) . 

19,363 

32,363 

District  Secretaries,  Assistants  and  Offices  (p.  14) . 

51,099 

68,099 

Contingent  . 

5,000 

5,000 

Subsidy  The  CJmrch  School  and  Pilgrim  Elementary  Teacher 

7,000 

7,000 

Intermediate  Secretary  and  Expenses  (p.  12) . 

6,000 

Deficit  from  last  year  . 

17,300 

17,300 

Religious  Day  Schools-  (p.  12) . 

11,000 

Equipment  for  University  Centers  (p.  13) . 

34,000 

Subsidy  Congregationalist . . 

23,000 

23,000 

Education  Society  apportionment  administered  by  States.. 

7,600 

7,600 

Total  Budget  . 

$202,695 

$313,195 

Income  Permanent  Funds  and  Legacies . 

38,000 

38,000 

Needed  from  Churches . 

$159,408  $275,195 

THE  COiNGREGATIONAL 

FOUNDATION  FOR  EDUCATION 


ONGREGATIONALISM  is  the 
mother  of  colleges  and  educa¬ 
tional  institutions.  These  have 
inherited  the  spirit  of  liberty  of  their 
mother.  They  recognize  the  relation- 
shii)  to  Congregational  churches 
which  the  facts  justify,  and  in  the 
past  generation  many  of  them  have 
slipped  away  from  any  vital  connec- 


war  brought  crises  to  many  of  the 
weaker  institutions  which  were  occu¬ 
pying  fields  of  importance.  With  in¬ 
come  at  a  dead  level  or  decreasing, 
the  problem  was  how  to  meet  mount¬ 
ing  expenses.  Some  were  closed; 
some  suspended  temporarily;  others 
now  face  the  necessity  of  one  or  the 
other  course. 


MAKE  WAY  FOR  OFR  FUTURE  LEADERS 


tion,  not  to  say  legal  connection, 
with  the  church  fellowship  because 
there  has  been  no  vital  connec¬ 
tion  between  colleges  and  institutions, 
financially  speaking.  This  spirit  of 
independence,  normally  commendable, 
has  resulted  in  institutions  irresponsi¬ 
ble  to  the  churches  and  churches  with 
little  sense  of  responsibility  for  the 
institutions.  This  has  been  lamenta¬ 
ble  from  the  standpoint  of  both. 

Financial  conditions  following  the 


In  view  of  the  financial  crises  in 
our  educational  institutions  they 
were  included  in  the  Emergency 
Fund  and  in  the  apportionment  of 
1921.  So  far  the  results  have  not 
been  over  satisfactoiy,  not  only  be¬ 
cause  the  returns  have  been  meager, 
])ut  because  the  puzzling  questions  in¬ 
volved  of  1‘elative  need  and  im])ort- 
ance  of  institutions,  togelhei*  witli  the 
('onditions  undee  whic'li  aid  should  l)e 
given,  were  so  great  as  to  l)e  almost 


THE  FOUNDATION  FOR  EDUCATION 


A*M.272 


S  J6 

insolvable,  while  the  churches  them¬ 
selves  have  been  puzzled  as  to  why 
certain  ones,  if  not  most  of  the  insti¬ 
tutions,  should  be  objects  of  their  reg¬ 
ular  benevolences. 

Facing  these  quandaries,  the  Con¬ 
gregational  World  Movement  re¬ 
quested  the  Commission  on  Missions 
to  appoint  a  committee  for  a  careful 
study  of  the  situation.  This  commit¬ 
tee  having  gone  into  the  question 
most  carefully  reported  at  the  meet¬ 
ing  of  the  National  Council,  and  after 
careful  consideration  a  plan  was 
adopted  recommending  the  establish¬ 
ment  of  The  Congregational  Founda¬ 
tion  for  Education.  The  action  pro¬ 
vides  for  a  board  of  eighteen  trustees, 
one-third  pastors,  one-third  educators 
and  one-third  laymen.  The  executive 
officer  of  the  Foundation  is  to  be 
the  president,  employed  to  give  all  his 
time  to  the  Foundation. 

The  financial  operations  are  to  in¬ 
volve  (a)  the  continuation  in  the  ap¬ 
portionment  for  1921  and  1922  of  the 
7  per  cent  for  institutions,  to  be 
handled  by  the  Foundation;  (b)  the 
president  and  trustees  to  raise  addi¬ 
tional  money  sufficient  to  bring  the 
current  funds  to  $500,000  annually 
during  these  two  years,  and  to  raise 
in  subsequent  years  a  like  amount  or 
more;  (c)  the  trustees  and  president 
to  plan  for  raising  an  adequate  en¬ 
dowment,  determining  its  amount 
and  the  processes  after  consultation 
with  the  State  Conferences  so  far  as 
possible. 

The  purposes  of  the  Foundation 
are  expressed  in  the  recommendation 
of  the  Commission  on  Missions 
adopted  by  the  National  Council  at 
Los  Angeles : 

1.  To  promote  the  ideals  of  the 
churches  of  the  Congregational  fellow¬ 
ship  through  institutions  of  secondary 
and  higher  education  which  possess  those 
ideals  and  share  in  that  fellowship. 

2.  To  make  available  the  resources  of 
our  fellowship  for  the  counsel  and  en¬ 
couragement  of  these  institutions  in  the 
realization  of  our  common  purposes. 

3.  To  establish  a  permanent  fund,  the 
income  of  which  shall  be  used  to  aid  the 


upbuilding  and  maintenance  of  these  in¬ 
stitutions. 

4.  To  provide  an  agency  for  the  study 
of  the  educational  problems  of  these  in¬ 
stitutions  and  for  the  administration  and 
distribution  of  these  funds  in  such  ways 
as  shall  best  further  the  common  inter¬ 
ests  and  ideals  of  these  institutions  and 
our  churches,  by  the  maintenance  in 
these  institutions  of  high  standards  of 
educational  efficiency  and  moral  and  re¬ 
ligious  purpose. 

The  needs  of  onr  educational  insti¬ 
tutions  vary  from  those  of  strong 
corporations  which  yet  can  enlarge 
their  work  indefinitely  to  those  of 
missionary  institutions  which  face 
emergency,  and  even  death.  Doubt¬ 
less  the  churches  do  not  feel  that  the 
apportionment  should  make  provi¬ 
sion  for  the  stronger  institutions,  and 
probably  they  will  welcome  the  plan 
under  which  even  the  weaker  mis¬ 
sionary  institutions  may  be  counseled 
and  aided  more  wisely  and  more  ade¬ 
quately  than  could  be  done  under  the 
missionary  apportionment. 

In  the  confidence  of  this  ultimate 
success  on  a  large  scale  the  Commis¬ 
sion  on  Missions  urgently  requests  the 
churches  to  look  upon  the  7  per  cent 
retained  in  the  apportionment  for 
1921  and  1922  as  one  of  the  important 
items  of  that  schedule.  Its  payment 
will  put  the  Foundation  upon  its  feet 
for  action  and  enable  it  to  meet  a  few 
of  the  more  serious  crises  in  the  lives 
of  our  weaker  institutions.  Immedi¬ 
ately  the  moral  value  of  such  backing 
will  make  it  possible  for  the  institu¬ 
tions  themselves  to  secure  more  sup¬ 
port  locally,  thus  giving  opportunity 
to  the  Foundation  for  finding  itself, 
making  its  plans  and  actuallv  carry¬ 
ing  out  its  purposes.  The  Commis¬ 
sion  therefore  confidently  asks  the 
churches  to  provide  through  their  ap¬ 
portionment  the  sum  of  $350,000  for 
the  next  year.  It  is  our  confident  ex¬ 
pectation  that  the  Foundation  will 
henceforth  be  able  to  render  substan¬ 
tial  assistance  and  fraternal  guidance 
which  will  make  it  unnecessary  to  in¬ 
clude  these  institutions  in  the  appor¬ 
tionment,  except  for  local  groups  of 
churches,  and  at  their  option. 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


What  Are  the  Church  Extension  Boards  ? 

name,  ‘‘  The  Church  Extension  Boards/’  does  not  stand  for  a  spe- 
/  I  cific  corporation  but  is  a  convenience  for' designating  three  distinct  mis- 
V5r  sionary  corporations  which  are  administered  by  a  common  Board  of 
Directors,  with  a  common  General  Secretary  and  a  common  Treasurer.  These 
are;  The  Congregational  Sunday  School  Extension  Society,  The  Congrega¬ 
tional  Home  Missionary  Society  and  The  Congregational  Church  Building  So¬ 
ciety.  The  reason  for  the  common  administration  is  obvious  in  that  these  three 
organizations  have  immediately  to  do  with  the  interests  of  the  local  church. 

What  Does  the  C.  S._S.  E.  S.  Do  ? 

The  functions  of  the  C.  S.  S.  E.  S.  are  fourfold:  (a)  The  planting  of 
mission  Sunday  Schools;  (b)  The  nourishing  of  mission  and  branch  Sunday 
Schools;  (c)  The  aiding  of  Sunday  Schools  in  securing  proper  literature;  and 
(d)  Co-operation  with  the  Education  Society  in  the  religious  education  pro¬ 
gram  of  our  Church  Schools.  (See  Tabular  Report,  Page  18.) 

What  Does  the  C.  H.  M.  S.  Do  ? 

The  functions  of  the  C.  H.  M.  S.  are  fivefold:  (a)  The  organizing  of  new 
churches;  (b)  The  aiding  of  weak  churches  (see  page  29)  ;  (c)  The  doctoring 
of  sick  churches;  (d)  The  burying  of  dead  churches,  including  the  winding 
up  of  affairs  of  churches  no  longer  needed  and  the  merging  of  churches  where 
there  is  overlapping;  and  (e)  The  fostering  of  all  our  churches,  that  is,  this 
Society  maintains  a  force  of  85  Superintendents,  Assistant  Superintendents, 
General  Missionaries,  Pastors-at-I^arge,  etc.,  who  give  their  entire  time  to  pro¬ 
moting  the  whole  denominational  program  in  associations,  conferences  and 
local  churches.  The  Program  of  Evangelism,  for  example,  is  subsidized  and 
forwarded  by  the  Home  Missionary  Society  and  its  affiliated  state  and  city 
organizations.  Likewise,  anything  that  will  advance  the  work  of  the  churches 
is  of  concern  to  this  Society. 

What  Does  the  C.  C.  B.  S.  Do  ? 

The  C.  C.  B.  S.  assists  churches  in  securing  adequate  church  Imildings 
and  parsonages  for  their  ministers.  This  is  done  by  making  grants  practically 
gifts  to  the  churches  except  that  they  are  covered  by  mortgage  and  ai’c  recov¬ 
erable  inxase  of  the  failure  of  the  church,  and  loans  with  no  interest  or  low 
interest,  payable  in  installments  covering  usually  ten  years  on  church  build¬ 
ings  and  five  years  on  parsonages.  Incidentally,  a  multitude  of  services  is  ren¬ 
dered  to  the  churches,  affecting  property,  such  as  proper  titles,  insurance, 
taxes,  location,  architectui’e,  etc. 

The  Church  Extension  Boards,  then,  constitute  the  fellowship  of  all  the 
churches  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  all  the  churches  by  all  possible  means. 

The  Tabular  Report  on  the  following  page  will  amply  reward  minute 
study  by  those  who  are  concerned  that  the  churches  of  the  Pilgrim  faith  should 
be  faithful  to  their  commission.  The  home  missionary  statistics  apply  to  home 
missionary  churches  only,  except  in  the  last  colmun  where,  aside  from  Con¬ 
necticut  and  Massachusetts,  the  need  for  men  applies  to  all  the  churches. 


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A.M.  274 


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TABULAR  REPORT  OF  HOME  MISSIONS  IN  1920 


States 

No.  of 

workers 

No.  of 

churches 

No.  church 

members 

No.  ac¬ 

cessions 

Churches 

built 

Churches 

organized 

To  self- 

support 

Men 

needed 

California,  No. 

. .  34 

46 

2,080 

409 

0 

3 

1 

0 

California,  So. 

.  .  54 

53 

2,760 

672 

3 

1 

11 

5 

Connecticut  .  .  . 

63 

69 

3,004 

228 

0 

1 

1 

4 

Illinois  . 

.  .  61 

55 

6,246 

765 

0 

0 

3 

7 

Iowa  . 

oo 

18 

1,344 

214 

0 

0 

0 

10 

Kansas  . 

.  .  21 

17 

1,922 

230 

0 

1 

0 

18 

Maine  . 

.  .  69 

106 

3,010 

165 

1 

9 

0 

14 

Massachusetts  . 

.  .  144 

173 

10,941 

906 

1 

1 

15 

7 

Michigan  . 

.  .  53 

64 

3,634 

706 

1 

9 

1 

8 

Minnesota  .... 

.  .  37 

93 

3,345 

472 

3 

3 

0 

8 

Missouri  . 

,  .  22 

24 

2,114 

187 

1 

0 

3 

1 

Nebraska  . 

.  .  16 

11 

593 

95 

0 

0 

0 

37 

New  Hampshire 

.  39 

48 

1,705 

107 

0 

0 

2 

5 

New  York  .... 

.  .  73 

68 

5,385 

434 

2 

2 

4 

7 

Ohio  . .  . 

.  .  35 

26 

3,845 

653 

1 

0 

1 

0 

Rhode  Island  .  . 

.  .  12 

13 

1,000 

129 

0 

0 

2 

0 

V  ermont  . 

.  .  48 

37 

1,601 

85 

0 

0 

0 

7 

Washington  .  . 

.  .  52 

61 

2,823 

474 

0 

2 

1 

10 

Wisconsin  .... 

.  .  49 

77 

2,997 

203 

0 

3 

2 

12 

National  Territory  540 

803 

28,320 

3,615 

12 

17 

3 

131 

Total  . 

.  .1,444 

1,862 

88,669  10,749 

25 

38 

50 

291 

1919  . 

.  .1,437 

1,846 

87,381 

9,555 

20 

19 

37 

269 

SUMMARY  OF  REPORT  OF  C. 

C.  B. 

s. 

FOR 

1920 

Grants  and  loans  paid  to  churches 

ill  1920.  .  . 

$465,726 

Appropriated  in 

1920,  99  grants 

amounting 

to . 

.^238,137 

Appropriated  in 

1920,  68  church  loans  andg 

to.  .  .  . 

196,715 

Appropriated  in 

1920,  48  parsonage  loans  amtg.  to.  . 

71,675 

21^ 

3  grants  and  loans 

amtg  to 

.  .  .  • 

.... 

506,527 

No.  of  applications  left  over  to  1921,  133  amounting 

to.  . 

436,275 

Amount  of  loan  funds  at 

work  in 

churches  July  1.  . 

1,023,000 

Value  of  property  on  which  aid  paid  in  12  months 

2,310,000 

SUMMARY  OF  REPORT  OF  C*  S.  S.  E.  S*  FOR  1920 


Number  of  field  workers  . 54 

Number  of  new  mission  Sunday  Schools  organized .  109 

Number  of  mission  Sunday  Schools  reorganized .  37 

Number  of  Sunday  Schools  visited  by  C.  S.  S.  E.  S.  woi’kers.  .  .  .  2,623 

Number  of  conventions  and  conferences  participated  in .  872 

Gi’ants  of  lesson  literature  in  18  states  amounting  to .  1,290 


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THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


S  19 


SOME  SAMPLES  OF  FRONTIER  WORK 

(By  “  Frontier  ”  is  meant  chiefly  the  remote  sections  of  the  states  between  the 
Mississippi  Valley  and  the  Pacific  Coast,  plus  Alaska.  Thousands  of  extensive  com¬ 
munities  sparsely  settled  are  without  religious  ministry  or  served  by  home  mis¬ 
sionary  workers.  The  Snowy  Mountain  Parish  is  an  example,  etc.) 


FIE  Snowy  Mountain  Parish. 
At  the  foot  of  the  Snowy  Range 
of  mountains  in  Central  Mon¬ 
tana  lies  this  great  field.  The  student 
pastor  in  order  to  reach  all  of  his 
preaching  points  makes  a  round  trip 
of  sixty  miles  a  Sunday.  His  sched¬ 
ule  includes  three  Sunday  Schools 
and  five  preaching  engagements,  a 
rather  full  program.  The  people  of 
this  region  mainly  are  dry  farmers 
and  in  spite  of  drought  are  making 
good.  At  present  the  houses  of  wor- 


a  section  of  country  taking  in  Boun¬ 
tiful  and  Sandy,  near  Salt  Lake  City, 
Plymouth  Church  in  the  city  itself, 
almost  under  the  shadow  of  the  Mor¬ 
mon  Temple,  and  Five  Points,  a  dis¬ 
trict  on  the  outskirts  of  Ogden.  In 
this  fourfold  field,  Sunday  School 
and  Young  People’s  activities  are  in 
session  every  Sunday,  and  many 
week-day  activities  are  also  organized. 
These  indicate  the  possibilities  all  over 
the  state  and  amid  frontier  conditions 
everywhere. 


A  SNOWY  MOUNTAIN  l*KOSI*U("I’ 


ship  are  poor  little  boxes  of  buildings 
or  log  cabins.  With  the  return  of 
prosperity  several  points  will  be 
ready  to  build.  The  citizens  are  in¬ 
telligent  and  resourceful  and  will  not 
always  remain  upon  the  home  mis¬ 
sionary  list.  Such  work  is  a  good  in¬ 
vestment.  It  takes  a  high-grade  man 
to  serve  such  a  field,  and  he  must  be 
paid  a  living  salary. 

A  Message  from  Utah.  One  of 
the  outstanding  opportunities  along 
Sunday  School  Extension  lines  is  in 


If  the  whole  apportionment  is  re¬ 
ceived,  it  will  be  possible  to  add  .$100 
to  each  home  missionary’s  salary, 
conditioning  it  on  the  churches  served 
doubling  the  amount,  also  to  restore 
of  the  lost  workers  100  on  the  frontier 
at  a  total  outlay  of  $30,000.  The 
Sunday  School  Society  would  be  able 
to  prejiare  the  way  for  these  mission¬ 
aries  at  a  cost  of  $140  each,  and  the 
(fiiui*ch  Building  Society  could  aid  in 
securing  needed  buildings  at  an  aver¬ 
age  of  $445. 


S20 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


A. M.  276 


SOME  SAMPLES  OF  RURAL  WORK 


OLLBRAN,  Colorado,  as  a  dem¬ 
onstration  parish  is  becoming 
known  throughout  the  land. 
(See  former  Survey,  page  30.)  The 
response  of  the  people  of  Plateau  Val¬ 
ley  to  the  larger  program  has  been 
remarkable.  In  a  recent  financial 
canvass  it  was  discovered  that  nearly 
everyone  within  a  radius  of  ten  or 
fifteen  miles  had  given  something  to 
the  work.  Through  a  comity  ar¬ 
rangement  the  Methodist  church  at 
Plateau  City  has  been  turned  over  to 
Congregational  direction  as  a  part  of 
the  larger  par¬ 
ish  for  a  definite 
period  of  years. 

The  spiritual 
interest  seems  to 
have  deepened 
in  the  face  of 
t  h  e  financial 
drives.  The  par¬ 
ish  car  with  its 
electric  gener¬ 
ator  and  mov¬ 
ing  picture  out¬ 
fit  is  kept  in 
constant  use. 

During  the  sum¬ 
mer,  a  worker 
under  the  Sun¬ 
day  School  Ex¬ 
tension  Society 
conducted  Sun¬ 
day  Schools  in 
the  outlying  regions,  successfully  di¬ 
rected  the  Camp  Fire  Girls,  and  as¬ 
sisted  in  other  forms  of  Bible  study, 
recreation,  the  putting  on  of  pa¬ 
geants,  etc. 

The  first  unit  of  the  parish  house 
will  be  ready  this  fall,  providing  rest 
rooms,  kitchen,  dining  room  and  other 
forms  of  social  service. 

In  Alabama,  a  state  six  and  one- 
quarter  times  larger  than  Massachu¬ 
setts,  and  entirely  rural,  Thorsby 
stands  for  community  building,  Avith 
a  program  of  religious  and  educa¬ 
tional  ideals.  The  toAvn  itself,  with 
a  population  of  about  600.  is  located 
geographically  in  the  center  of  the 


state  and  constitutes  the  hub  of  Con¬ 
gregational  activities  in  Alabama, 
where  wfithin  an  area  of  52,000  square 
miles  there  are  sixty  Congregational 
churches  mth  about  three  thousand 
members  and  two  thousand  Sunday 
School  pupils.  Thorsby  has  become 
one  of  the  ‘  ‘  Larger  Parish  Centers,  ’  ’ 
and  the  Thorsby  Institute  has  de¬ 
veloped  into  The  Alabama  Religious 
and  Educational  Institute,  with  a 
state-wide  program.  Under  the  di¬ 
rection  of  the  Congregational 
Church  Extension  Boards,  with  its 

expanded  pro¬ 
gram,  it  stands 
for  concrete 
demonstratio  n  s 
of  the  greater 
possibilities  of 
communitv  life 

C' 

and  develop¬ 
ment,  with  the 
church  as  the 
center.  In  addi¬ 
tion  to  the  pas¬ 
toral  leadership 
and  I-nstitute 
faculty,  a  Sun¬ 
day  School  Ex¬ 
tension  worker 
has  been  ap¬ 
pointed  whose 
task  is  that  of 
developing  Sun¬ 
day  Schools. 

The  Director  of  Rural  Work  has  for 
his  function  the  initiating  of  demon¬ 
stration  parishes  similar  to*Collbran 
and  Thorsby.  For  forty-eight  states 
we  have  just  one  specialist  in  this  de- 
l)artment.  If  the  full  apportionment 
is  provided,  it  will  be  possible  to  place 
three  more  at  a  cost  of  $15,000.  The 
full  budget  will  also  alloAv  us  to  re¬ 
store  100  of  the  missionaries  dis¬ 
missed,  at  a  cost  of  $30,000.  The 
Sunday  School  Society  would  be 
able  to  prepare  the  way  for  these 
missionaries  at  a  cost  of  $140  each  and 
the  Church  Building  Society  could  aid 
in  securing  needed  buildings  at  an  av¬ 
erage  of  $445. 


A. M.  277 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


S2\ 


SOME  SAMPLES  OF  FOREIGN-SPEAKING  WORK 


T  is  an  anxious  moment  for  the 
immigTant  who  lands  at  Ellis 
Island.  Home  missionary  ac¬ 
tivities  begin  at  this  point  where  we 
are  supporting  a  social  worker  who 
seeks  to  render  all  possible  service  as 
the  newcomer 
enters  the  United 
States.  Through 
twenty  nationali¬ 
ties  we  are  now 
working  in  every 
part  of  the  land. 

Various  groups 
look  naturally  to 
the  Congrega¬ 
tional  church  for 
leadership.  It  is 
a  problem  of  rais¬ 
ing  up  leadership 
within  the  va¬ 
rious  groups,  of 
erecting  houses  of 
worship,  and  of 
assisting  in  the 
salaries  of  minis¬ 
ters.  It  is  pa¬ 
thetic  to  witness 
the  heartfelt  ap¬ 
preciation  0  f 
those  who  are 
helped  by  the  Society. 

As  a  sample  of  the  work  with  the 
twenty  nationalities  listed  below, 
s.tudy  the  record  of  the  German 
churches,  largely  German-Russian,  as 
given  in  the  last  Year  Book.  Total 
churches,  244;  members,  17,657; 
Young  People’s  Societies,  3,495;  ad¬ 
ditions,  confession,  1,823;  by  letter, 
624 ;  total,  2,477 ;  removed,  1,443 — 


1,004  gain  ;  total  benevolences  through 
missionary  societies,  $20,221 ;  Pil¬ 
grim  Memorial,  $1,164;  other  Congre¬ 
gational  gifts,  $17,877 ;  undenomina¬ 
tional  offerings  reported,  $28,948 ; 
Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Federa¬ 
tion,  $605 ;  grand 
total,  $68,815. 

Loveland,  Col¬ 
orado,  may  be 
taken  as  a  typical 
German  -  Russian 
church.  It  was 
organized  i  n 
1901,  with  twen- 

tv-five  members, 

»■  ' 

the  first  church 
erected  in  1905, 
the  second  in 
19  15,  seating 
peo¬ 
ple,  the  church 
property,  valued 
at  pre-war  prices 
at  $20,000,  could 
not  be  duplicated 
for  $60,000 ;  total 
membership,  378; 
total  benevolence 
1920,  $1,893. 

The  entire  apportionment  would 
enable  us  to  return  to  service  about 
forty  foreign-speaking  workers  at  an 
annual'  cost  of  $10,000.  The  Sunday 
School  Society  would  be  able  to  pre¬ 
pare  the  way  for  these  missionaries 
at  a  cost  of  approximately  $140  each 
and  the  Church  Building  Society 
could  aid  in  securing  needed  build¬ 
ings  at  an  average  of  $445. 


FOREIGN-SPEAKING  MISSIONS— 1920 


Armenian .  19 

Assyrian  .  1 

Bohemian  .  4 

Chinese .  1 

Dano-Norwegian .  22 

Finnish  .  52 

French .  4 

German .  89 

Greek .  3 

Indian .  2 

Italian .  22 


Polish  .  1 

Portuguese  .  2 

Slovak .  10 

Spanish .  14 

Swede-Finn  .  2 

Swede  .  48 

Syrian .  1 

Turkish-Armenian  .  1 

Welsh .  6 


Total .  304 


S22 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


A. M.  278 


SOME  SAMPLES  OF  CITY  WORK 


^^ARLY  home  missionary  work 
was  exclusively  for  frontier 
>i^  and  rural  places.  But  Amer¬ 
ica  has  come  to  be  a  country  of  cities. 
More  than  half  our  population  are 
city  dwellers. 

Tlie  city  is  a  liome  missionary 
field.  It  calls  for  heroic  service  and 
larg*e  initial  expenditiu'e.  The  de¬ 
nomination  which  does  not  broaden 
its  base  in  the  populous  and  resource¬ 
ful  cities  is  certain  to  deteriorate. 

The  Extension  Boards  now  have  a 
Director  of  City  Work,  Rev.  L.  H. 


fifty,  are  organized.  The  present 
plant  is  worth  $100,000.  It  was  se¬ 
cured  by  grants  and  loans  from  the 
Church  Building  Society. 

This  is  the  only  church  in  the  com¬ 
munity.  The  hearty  co-operation  of 
the  tourist  colony  as  well  as  of  per¬ 
manent  residents  is  enlisted.  There 
will  need  to  be  no  permanent  outlay 
of  missionary  money. 

Another  city  development  of  dif¬ 
ferent  character  but  of  urgent  im¬ 
portance  is  in  Canton,  Ohio,  where  we 
have  a  church  of  more  than  800  mem- 


MTAMI  BEACTT,  FLA.,  ARCHITECTS’  PLAN 


Royce,  whose  whole  time  is  given  to 
starting  and  developing  churches  in 
our  city  centers. 

Mr.  Royce  has  lately  concentrated 
his  attention  upon  a  growing  suburb 
of  Miami,  Florida.  A  long  peninsula 
across  Biscayne  Bay  is  the  ocean 
front  of  the  city.  It  is  rapidly  being 
settled.  A  fine  Spanish  Mission 
church  was  planned  to  meet  the  needs 
of  the  hundreds  of  people  there.  The 
auditorium  and  parsonage  are  al¬ 
ready  completed.  A  church  of  32 
charter  members,  a  Sunday  School  of 
125,  and  a  Woman’s  Association  of 


hers,  representing  500  families.  It  is 
in  a  teeming  manufacturing  center. 
They  have  built  for  community  ser¬ 
vice.  They  provide  for  physical,  so¬ 
cial  and  recreational  needs.  The 
church  plant  is  valued  at  $250,000. 
The  Church  Building  Society  has 
given  generous  aid  with  grants  and 
loans. 

Other  city  cases  of  extreme  urgency 
calling  for  exceptional  aid  are  Han¬ 
cock,  Michigan,  which  in  sixty  years 
has  sent  to  our  benevolent  societies 
$47,000  and  is  now  caught  in  its 
building  crisis  by  a  labor  upset  which 


A. M. 279 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


S23 


MIAMI  BEACH,  FLA.,  AUDITORIUM  AND  PARSONAGE 


cripples  it;  Wichita,  Kansas,  United 
Church,  which  has  in  hand  a  new 
building  to  cost  .$130,000  to  meet  ex¬ 
traordinary  needs;  two  churches  in 
Greater  New  York  to  care  for  the 
thousands  of  Negroes  of  the  recent 
migration ;  Chattanooga,  Tennessee, 
where  Pilgrim  Church  is  struggling 
to  secure  a  $60,000  plant. 

For  the  entire  country,  with  mort^ 
than  a  hundred  great  cities,  Ave  have 
only  one  man  for  this  imporlant  city 
work.  The  full  a])poi‘ti()iimeiit 


would  permit  us  to  employ  three 
more  city  specialists  at  a  cost  of 
$15,000  for  salary  and  expenses. 
It  would  also  permit  us  to  restore  to 
service  100  citv  missionaries,  one  to 
each  of  100  cities.  The  cost  Avould 
be  about  $30,000.  The  Sunday 
School  Society  could  prepare  the  Avay 
for  them  at  a  cost  of  $140  each ;  the 
Church  Building  Society  could  aid  in 
securing  buildings  at  an  average  of 
$445  oi*  ten  times  that  amount  for 
om*-t(Mith  of  them. 


CANTON,  O.,  FIRST  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH 


S24 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


A. M.  280 


SOME  SAMPLES  OF  WORK  IN  EDUCATIONAL  CENTERS 


NE  of  the  most  significant  de¬ 
velopments  of  recent  American 
life  is  the  rapid  growth  of  tax- 
supported  institutions  of  higher  edu¬ 
cation.  There  are  now  over  250  such 
institutions,  including  universities, 
agricultural  and  technical  schools, 
with  state  normal  schools  and  col¬ 
leges.  Frequently  these  great  institu¬ 
tions  are  located  in  small  communi¬ 
ties  whose  resources  are  wholly  inade¬ 
quate  to  meet  their  religious  needs.  To 
quote  the  I.  W.  M.  Survey : 

“  Many  surprising  conditions  are  be¬ 
ing  disclosed.  A  few  instances  will  illus¬ 
trate.  One  state  college  with  2,000 
students  during  the  twelve  months  is  in 
a  small  community  with  but  one  church 
whose  building  will  not  seat  more 
than  250  people.  Another  is  five  miles 


distant  from  the  nearest  church.  An¬ 
other  is  served  by  two  little  churches 
with  less  than  forty  members  each,  wi);h 
buildings  so  small  and  so  badly  located 
that  they  are  almost  useless.  There  are 
many  student  communities  without  a 
church  that  is  able  to  support  a  ministry 
adequate  to  the  needs  of  the  faculty  and 
students.’’ 

The  local  communities  are  not  only 
unable  to  provide  the  religious  care 
for  such  institutions,  but  it  is  not 
their  exclusive  responsibility.  As  the 
students  come  from  all  over  a  state  or 
from  all  states,  so  the  responsibility 
for  adequate  religious  equipment  and 
service  should  be  shared  by  the  state 
and  national  religious  organizations. 
Take  as  an  example  the  opportunities 
at  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan. 


ANN  ARBOR 

Home  of  the  University  of  Michigan 

Net  University  enrollment,  10,623.  School  of  Music,  600;  High  School,  900. 
Total  student  population,  12,000.  3,500  to  5,000  other  transient  residents. 

Students  from  all  states  and  most  countries.  325 
foreign  students  in  1921.  $2,000,000  foundation  for 

Oriental  women.  Tremendous  growth  —  Enrollment 
1890,  2,153;  1900,  3,441;  1910,  5,383;  1921,  10,623. 

Congregational  students,  1,067,  half  men.  In  next  ten 
years,  5,000  to  8,000  different  Congregational  students. 

Congregational  Church  opposite  main  entrance  from 
city.  See  cross  at  180.  Built  in  1872;  seats  900;  762 
members;  152  in  faculty  families;  members  and  Con¬ 
gregational  students,  1,829,  double  seating  capacity. 

People  regularly  turned  away  Sundays.  Dare  not  ask 
for  new  members  —  no  seats.  No  social  rooms  for 

in  30  years,  144 
Building  opera- 


student  work.  Increase  in  members 
per  cent;  University,  365  per  cent, 
tions  imperative. 


LEGEND 

180,  Cong’l.  Church 
1,  Univ.  Hall 
4,  Law  Building 
32,  33,  34,  U.  Bldgs. 

83,  Zeta  Phi  Frat. 

45,  Mich.  Union 
75,  Sigma  Chi  Frat. 

51,  Alpha  Delta  Phi 

200,  School  of  Music 

Black  rectangles.  University 

buildings 

Open  rectangles.  Public  build¬ 
ings 


A.  M. 28J 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


S25 


But  little  imagination  is  necessary 
to  be  gripped  by  such  a  situation. 
Right  at  the  main  entrance  from  the 
city,  surrounded  by  10,000  alert  stu¬ 
dents  from  everywhere  and  going 
back  to  everywhere  to  be  leaders  in 
all  phases  of  human  life,  what  a 
strategic  opportunity  to  mold  the 
world !  But,  although  the  state  ap¬ 
propriated  at  the  single  session  of 
1920  $4,800,000  for  buildings  and 
equipment,  the  church,  built  forty- 
nine  years  ago,  turns  students  away 
regularly  for  want  of  room  and  has 
no  equipment  for  work  among  stu¬ 
dents.  It  is  too  much  to  ask  that  a 
small  community  should  assume  this 
service  unaided.  The  local  church  is 
willing  to  do  its  best.  It  has  plans 
for  building  operations.  Certainly  it 
would  not  be  too  much  to  ask  that 
over  and  above  normal  assistance 
that  church  should  have  the  backing 
of  the  Building  Society  for  $25,000 
at  the  very  lowest.  The  fuU  appor¬ 
tionment  would  make  this  possible  for 
Michigan  one  year,  and  for  some 
other  state  each  year.  It  seems  too 
little  to  ask  when  we  consider  that  in 
the  student  bodies  of  to-day  are  found 
the  world ’s  leaders  of  tomorrow. 

Or  we  may  turn  to  the  State  Agri¬ 
cultural  Colleges.  We  might  as  well 
stay  in  Michigan  for  this  sample  also. 
At  East  Lansing,  Michigan,  is  located 
the  State  Agricultural  College.  It  is 
a  typical  case  of  the  small  town  with 
the  comparatively  large  institution 
calling  for  service  beyond  its  resources 
and  centering  responsibility  there 
that  is  denomination  wide. 

Here  is  a  clear  field  with  no  over¬ 


lapping.  Population  3,000 ;  enroll¬ 
ment  1,500 ;  only  one  church,  with 
other  denominations  assisting  in  stu¬ 
dent  work.  Here  is  a  strategic  oppor¬ 
tunity  ;  a  procession  of  youth  determ¬ 
ining  their  futures;  church  members 
to  be  kept  close  to  church  work,  and 
others  won  to  the  church ;  possible  re¬ 
cruits  to  be  won  for  the  rural  ministiy 
that  will  do  the  job ;  a  supply  of 
agricultural  missionaries  for  all  the 
fields  of  the  American  Board  in 
China,  India,  Africa,  the  Balkans, 
etc.,  if  properly  cultivated. 

Plans  are  under  consideration  for  a 
combination  of  four  denominations. 
If  this  is  not  feasible  doubtless  the 
present  plant  will  continue  with  three 
other  bodies  assisting  in  maintaining 
a  student  pastor  and  other  workers. 
To  make  good  there  should  be  a  plant 
costing  from  $100,000  to  $200,000. 
The  town  is  devoted  to  the  work  and 
can  possibly  provide  half  of  the 
amount.  The  churches  of  the  state 
will  co-operate.  The  ordinary  grant 
for  a  town  of  3,000  from  the  Build¬ 
ing  Society  would  not  exceed  $5,000. 
Five  times  that  amount  would  be  too 
little  for  the  challenge  here  where 
work  is  for  students  who  cannot 
build  church  buildings  but  who  can 
build  the  Kingdom  of  God.  To  make 
a  grant  of  $25,000  would  cut  off  from 
aid  ten  average  churches  of  the  80 
now  on  the  waiting  list.  We  need 
such  grants  for  perhaps  50  such  op¬ 
portunities,  but  unless  the  additional 
money  required  is  given,  it  will  be  im¬ 
possible  to  meet  such  strategic  oppor¬ 
tunities.  Our  churches  will  surely 
heed  such  a  call. 


S26 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


A.  M.  282 


SOME  SAMPLES  OF  NEGRO  WORK 


HE  Negroes  of  the  North, 
mostly  migrants,  present  a 
great  unmet  missionary 
portunity.  The 
exodus,  the  de¬ 
pression — t  hen 
what  ?  Problems 
by  the  score,  of 
adjustment,  so¬ 
cial,  political,  re¬ 
ligious,  economic. 

Numbers  re¬ 
turned  South, 
but  many  still 
come  North,  evi¬ 
dently  here  to 
stay.  They 
spread  out  and 
settle  down.  Thus 
the  race  problem 
i  s  permanently 
nationalized. 

What  are  our 
churches  doing  ? 

The  Negro  De¬ 
partment  of  the 
Home  Missionary 
Society  is  in 

t' 

touch  with  the  constituency  where  the 
opportunity  is  great,  advising  and  co¬ 
operating. 

Out  of  thirty  Negro  churches,  two 
are  new,  four  are  yet  unrecognized, 
and  there  is  a  call  for  six  more  at 
the  very  least. 

They  lead  in  so¬ 
cial  service.  At 
Springfield,  Dr. 

DeBerry  has  the 
most  extensive 
plant  in  America, 
employing  eleven 
worker  s.  In 
Brooklyn,  Dr. 

Proctor  is  pro¬ 
jecting  a  great 
successful  pro¬ 
gram.  N  e  w 
Haven  and  Hart¬ 
ford  have  two 
workers  each.  Chicago  and  Cleveland 
are  adding  social  workers.  The  new 
work  under  Dr.  Garner  in  New  York 


is  calling  for  a  staff  to  meet  the  largest 
single  opportunity  of  the  country.  De¬ 
troit,  the  major  success  of  the  year,  has 

grown  from  twen¬ 
ty-five  to  one  hun¬ 
dred  and  fifty 
members,  has  a 
plant  worth  $23,- 
000  against  noth¬ 
ing  a  year  ago, 
has  two  workers, 
a  community  pro¬ 
gram,  including  a 
home  for  working 
girls,  club  rooms 
for  boys,  work 
for  unemployed 
women,  motion 
pictures.  This 
group  of 
churches  is  hand¬ 
icapped,  not  by  a 
lack  of  leaders  of 
training  and 
vision,  but  for 
equipment  equal 
to  the  oppor¬ 
tunity. 

Rev.  H.  M.  Kingsley,  as  Director  of 
work  among  Negroes  in  the  North, 
has  responded  to  calls  from  churches 
and  groups  in  Boston,  New  York, 
Buffalo,  Cleveland,  Chicago  and 
other  cities.  He  started  Plymouth 

Church  at  Detroit 
and  assisted  in 
getting  Dr.  Gar¬ 
ner  to  come  to 
New  York.  He 
cannot  begin  to 
respond  to  the 
urgent  calls  for 
his  services.  He 
is  equally  at 
home  in  churches, 
conferences, 
among  groups  of 
laborers  in  street 
meetings  or  dis¬ 
cussion  groups. 
His  services  are  exceedingly  valuable 
as  an  interpreter  of  present  condi¬ 
tions  as  well  as  a  superintendent. 


op- 


rLYMOUTII  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH. 

DETROIT 


OFFICERS  OF  PLYMOUTH  CHURCH 


A.M.  283 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


S27 


WHAT  DO  WE  NEED  IN  CHURCH  EXTENSION? 

1.  Men.  We  need  more  men,  but  especially  stronger  men.  Ministers 
themselves  are  foremost  in  confirming  this  statement.  Doubtless,  about  one- 
half  of  our  ministers  do  not  have  regular  college  and  seminary  training.  We 
hasten  to  say  that  education  cannot  replace  piety,  and  hasten  again  to  insist 
that  piety  cannot  make  good  the  want  of  education.  Both  are  essential. 

By  last  year’s  Year  Book,  of  5,924  churches,  1,331  w'ere  pastorless. 

There  are  650  fewer  pastors  serving  churches  than  in  1914;  93  were 
•ordained  in  1920 ;  139  died.  Many  were  diverted  to  other  callings. 

The  Extension  Boards  are  seeking  (1)  a  grading  up  of  our  work  all 
^ong  the  line ;  (2)  to  see  that  every  minister  has  a  man’s  job ;  (3)  the  elimina¬ 
tion  of  overchurching;  (4)  the  proper  development  of  the  individual  field; 
(5)  an  adequate  support  for  every  minister  (See  page  28). 

The  Home  Missionary  Society  appeals  for  five  bands  of  young  men  to  go 
out  under  guarantee  of  at  least  $1,500  and  house,  or  equivalent,  with  automo¬ 
bile  where  necessary :  a  Rocky  Mountain  Band ;  a  Montana  Band ;  an  Okla¬ 
homa  Band;  a  Washington  Band;  and  a  Dixie  Band,  each  of  five  strong  men. 

2.  Money.  Money  needs  are  expressed  at  the  minimum  in  the  full  appor¬ 
tionment;  there  is  no  overload.  The  increase  of  salaries  is  imperative.  70  per 
oent  of  missionary  pastors  have  less  than  $1,500  per  year;  28  per  cent  are 
under  $1,000.  The  full  apportionment  would  make  it  possible  to  add  on  an 
average  $100  to  each  home  missionary  salary,  requiring  the  churches  served  * 
to  do  at  least  as  much,  and  to  promote  salary  increases  for  all  pastors. 

The  restoration  of  the  force  to  its  full  quota  is  the  second  essential. 
We  have  dropped  344  missionaries  since  1914.  There  are  562  fewer  home  mis¬ 
sionary  stations  than  in  1916 ;  27,485  fewer  pupils  in  home  missionary  Sunday 
Schools,  and  the  average  cost  for  a  year’s  labor  is  70  per  cent  higher.  Here 
the  church’s  nerve  of  growth  is  cut. 

Better  building  equipment  is  the  third  challenge.  Compare  the  rapid 
advance  in  business  and  public  buildings  with  that  in  church  construction ; 
note  that  more  than  two-thirds  of  our  churches  are  handicapped  by  inadequate 
building  facilities,  and  realize  that  not  to  speed  up  our  building  construction 
is  to  tie  the  hands,  especially  of  the  pastors.  That  way  lies  failure. 

Sunday  School  extension  we  have  been  playing  with.  Think  of  a  great 
nation-wide  denomination  spending  less  than  $100,000  annually  on  extending 
the  Sunday  School,  when  two-thirds  of  our  Protestant  children  and  youth 
are  without  religious  education !  We  ask  that  it  be  increased  to  $125,000. 

What  was  done  with  the  money  is  the  natural  question  asked.  One 
is  told  that  in  two  years  home  missionary  contributions  have  increased  86  per 
cent,  and  the  others  comparably.  (1)  Unescapable  expenses  were  met — 
rents,  travel,  printing,  promotion,  all  increased  unavoidably.  (2)  Toward 
restoring  the  351  missionaries  dropped  since  1914,  7  additional  men  were  put 
at  work.  (3)  The  major  portion  of  the  money  went  to  increase  low  salaries. 
So  nearly  as  can  be  gathered  from  twenty  treasuries  this  has  amounted  to 
about  $150,000,  or  an  average  increase  per  pastor  of  something  over  $100. 
(4)  Building  grants  have  averaged  $792  higher  than  in  1919,  an  aggregate  in¬ 
crease  of  $78,408.  With  the  Sunday  School  Extension  Society  it  has  meant 
better  salaries  for  the  field  force  and  the  employment  of  twenty  college  stu¬ 
dents  for  summer  work. 

The  askings  therefore  for  new  money  are: 

For  the  Home  Missionary  Society  to  restore  344  workers  to  the  force.  . . .  $134,660 


Increase  in  pastors’  salaries .  233,000 

Services  outlined  in  Survey  of  the  Sunday  School  Extension  Society .  47,624 

Building  Society,  toward  meeting  the  tremendous  building  demands .  178,000 


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THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


A,  M.284 


PASTORS’  SALARIES 


VERY  able-bodied  pastor  should  receive  at  least  $1,500  and  parsonage. 
The  following  table  is  a  study  of  salaries  from  this  standpoint. 

>W  order  followed  is  that  of  percentages  below  the  minimum.  Districts  are 
those  of  superintendents’  areas.  (See  notes  for  states.) 


1920  Salaries  by  States  and  Superintendency  Districts 

States 

Under 

$1000 

$1500 

$2000 

$3000 

%  under 

and  Dists. 

$1000 

—1499 

—1999 

—2999 

and  over 

$1600 

Missouri . 

4  =  10% 

7  =  17% 

12=28% 

13=31% 

6  =  14% 

26% 

Kansas . 

7=  9% 

19=26% 

30=40% 

15=20% 

4=  5% 

34% 

aRocky  Mtn . 

7  =  10% 

18=25% 

22=30% 

17=23% 

9  =  12% 

34% 

Rhode  Island .... 

6  =  18% 

6  =  18% 

9=28% 

8=24% 

4  =  12% 

36% 

Iowa . 

27  =  13% 

50=24% 

65=32% 

54  =  26% 

11=  5% 

37% 

6Middle  Atlantic . 

20  =  18% 

23=21% 

31=28% 

19  =  17% 

18  =  16% 

39% 

Minnesota . 

24  =  17% 

34  =  24% 

42=29% 

31=22% 

11=  8% 

40% 

Illinois . 

39  =  15% 

63=24% 

72=28% 

57=22% 

30  =  11% 

40% 

California,  S . 

15  =  15% 

23=24% 

36  =  36% 

11  =  11% 

14  =  14% 

40% 

cSouthwestern .  .  . 

1=  8% 

3=25% 

4  =  33% 

2  =  17% 

2  =  17% 

40% 

dCentral  South . . . 

6  =  13% 

14  =  31% 

12=27% 

7  =  16% 

6  =  13% 

42% 

Indiana . 

2=  8% 

8  =  33% 

6  =  25% 

4  =  17% 

4  =  17% 

42% 

Nebraska . 

13  =  10% 

43  =  33% 

50  =  39% 

18  =  14% 

5=  4% 

43% 

Ohio . 

50  =  27% 

35  =  19% 

39=21% 

36  =  19% 

26  =  14% 

45% 

New  York . 

52=21% 

69=28% 

47  =  19% 

43  =  18% 

34  =  14% 

46% 

California,  N.  .  .  . 

10  =  12% 

29=36% 

25=30% 

10  =  12% 

8  =  10% 

48% 

Wisconsin . 

41=25% 

37=23% 

38=23% 

36  =  22% 

11=  7% 

48% 

Massachusetts.  ,  . 

76  =  15% 

172=34% 

104=20% 

84  =  16% 

77  =  15% 

48% 

Connecticut . 

55=20% 

80=30% 

68=25% 

51  =  15% 

27  =  10% 

50% 

Washington . 

33=29% 

23  =  20% 

36  =  32% 

17  =  15% 

5=  4% 

50% 

South  Dakota. . .  . 

21=20% 

32  =  31% 

39=38% 

9=  9% 

2=  2% 

51% 

Michigan . 

46  =  24% 

61=31% 

43=22% 

29  =  15% 

15=  8% 

55% 

Oregon,  Idaho .  .  . 

12  =  19% 

24  =  39% 

14  =  23% 

9  =  14% 

3=  5% 

58% 

North  Dakota.  .  . 

21=32% 

19=29% 

15=22% 

10  =  15% 

1=  2% 

61% 

Vermont . 

31=20% 

70  =  46% 

34  =  22% 

13=  9% 

4=  3% 

66% 

Montana . 

26=45% 

14  =  24% 

10  =  17% 

6  =  10% 

2=  4% 

70% 

Maine . 

79=48% 

33=20% 

31  =  19% 

15=  9% 

6=  4% 

72% 

New  Hampshire. . 

47  =  30% 

68  =  43% 

22  =  14% 

12=  8% 

8=  5% 

73% 

Hawaii . 

46  =  65% 

9  =  13% 

6=  9% 

6=  9% 

3=  4% 

78% 

eSoutheastern .  .  . . 

60  =  66% 

15  =  16% 

7=  8% 

4=  5% 

5=  6% 

84% 

/Colored . 

55  =  75% 

16  =  22% 

2=  3% 

0=  0% 

0=  0% 

97% 

Totals . 

932=23% 

1137=28% 

971=24% 

636  =  16% 

361=  9% 

51% 

We  are  Gaining. — We  added  $600,000  to  pastors’  salaries  last  year.  The  aver¬ 
age  salary  in  1920  was  11.8%  higher  than  in  1919  and  45%  above  1916.  In  1919, 
63%  fell  below  the  $1,500  minimum,  and  29%  below  $1,000,  as  compared  with 
51%  and  23%  in  1920. 

Much  Remains  To  Do. — Over  half  of  our  pastors  are  without  a  living  wage, 
23%  receive  less  than  $1,000.  The  average  salary  is  $1,600.  $1,400,000  should  be 

added  to  salaries  at  once. 

We  Have  a  Plan. — A  definite,  persistent  campaign  is  on  to  stimulate  churches 
to  increase  salaries.  $700,000  is  needed  to  lift  low  salaries  to  the  $1,500  minimum. 
Another  $700,000  should  be  added  to  salaries  now  above  the  minimum,  but  still  in¬ 
adequate.  The  C.  H.  M.  S.  asks  for  $233,000  to  aid  weak  churches  on  condition  that 
they  provide  the  other  two-thirds. 

Note. — aRocky  Mountain;  Col.,  Utah,  Wyo.  hMiddle  Atlantic;  D.  C.,  Md.,  N.  J.,  Pa.,  Va.,  W.  Va. 
cSouthwest ;  Ariz.,  N.  M.  dCentral  South;  Ark.,  La.,  Okla.,  Tex.  eSoutheast;  Ala,,  Fla.,  Ga,, 
Ky.,  Miss.,  N.  C.,  S.  C.,  Tenn.  ^Colored  Conventions ;  Ala.,  Ga.,  La.,  N.  C.,  S.  C.,  Tenn.,  Tex. 


A.  1VI.285 


THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


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WHAT  WOULD  HAPPEN  IF  THE  NEEDS  WERE  NOT  MET? 

one  can  give  categorical  word  as  to  what  will  happen  in  a  world  in 
which  Divine  Providence  rules.  But  speaking  from  the  standpoint 
of  human  observation,  three  things  would  seem  to  be  expected  from 
failure  in  this  particular. 

1.  The  Church  of  the  Pilgrims  would  deteriorate.  Church  exten¬ 

sion  work  has  to  do  with  the  beginning  and  continuing  life  of  the  churches. 
In  its  strength  the  churches  are  strong,  in  its  weakness  the  churches  are 
weak.  A  survey  is  a  diagnosis  discovering  weak  spots.  We  note  three  symp¬ 
toms  demanding  attention:  (a)  A  certain  element  of  weakness  which  calls 
for  vigorous  extension  work.  61  per  cent  of  our  churches  report  100  members 
or  less ;  38  per  cent  report  50  members  or  less ;  44  per  cent  fail  to  report  any 
additions  on  confession ;  14  per  cent  of  our  membership  is  on  the  absentee  list ; 
three  times  as  many  members  are  dropped  as  are  taken  from  our  roll  by 
death,  (b)  The  loss  of  churches.  96  churches  were  dropped  from  our  list  in 
1920;  61  new  churches  were  organized — a  net  loss  of  35.  The  record  for  five 
years  is :  in  1915,  6,103  churches ;  in  1916,  6,089 ;  in  1917,  6,050 ;  in  1918, 
6,019;  in  1919,  5,959;  in  1920,  5,924 — a  loss  of  179.  Had  we  maintained  the 
average  addition  of  new  churches  before  1914,  that  is,  139  per  year,  we  should 
have  shown  a  net  gain  of  73,  a  difference  of  252.  (c)  Relative  loss  of  mem¬ 

bers.  The  Protestant  gain  in  the  census  decade  amounted  to  23.4  per  cent. 
The  ‘Congregational  gain  9.2  per  cent,  twm-fifths  that  of  the  Protestant 
churches  as  a  whole.  The  gain  in  population  was  14.9  per  cent  against  our 
9.2  per  cent,  or  less  than  two-thirds  as  fast  as  the  population. 

These  figures  are  not  recorded  as  the  whining  of  the  pessimist,  but  as 
facing  the  facts  squarely,  in  confidence  that  the  appeal  for  church  extension 
work  will  make  it  possible  to  recover  our  position  in  the  column  of  advance. 
In  this  we  have  occasion  for  courage  in  the  fact  that  1920  saw  the  largest  num¬ 
ber  of  accessions  in  our  history  and  a  net  gain  of  1.35  per  cent,  restoring  the 
Congregational  churches  to  an  average  increase  equal  to  that  of  the  popula¬ 
tion  of  the  country.  Given  adequate  resources  in  men  and  money  the  Church 
Extension  Boards  can  and  will  convert  retrogression  into  procession. 

2.  We  should  lose  our  spiritual  life.  No  individual,  church  or  denomi¬ 
nation  can  hope  to  retain  spiritual  life  while  facing  religious  obligations  and 
opportunities  without  concern  and  without  endeavor.  That  the  Congrega¬ 
tional  Christians  of  America  should  have  no  concern  about  their  obligations 
is  beyond  thought.  Moreover,  the  pages  of  this  Survey  make  evident  that 
the  concern  is  vital  and  the  determination  to  meet  the  case  strongly  is  firm. 

3.  Christ’s  Kingdom  would  recede.  True,  the  Lord  God  may  deal  with 
other  forces.  The  fact  is  ultimate,  however,  that  so  far  as  we  are  concerned, 
if  we  fail  to  meet  the  present  opportunities  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  will  fail. 

The  fundamental  ‘challenge  to  American  Christians  who  believe  in  the 
redeeming  power  of  Jesus  Christ  is  the  fact  that  of  our  Protestant  population 
old  enough  to  consider  church  membership,  there  are  two  who  are  not  members 
to  one  who  is,  and  that  of  those  under  twenty-five  years  of  age,  there  are  two 
not  in  Sunday  School  to  one  who  is.  All  the  churches  deal  with  this  situation, 
but  Church  Extension  forces  are  their  shock  troops  for  advance. 

The  budgets  on  the  following  page  show  the  money  needed  for  reinforce¬ 
ments  that  will  surely  turn  retreat  or  mere  holding  on  into  victory  and 
progress.  They  are  based  on  the  continuation  of  the  amount  of  work  done 
last  year  at  the  same  cost,  with  additional  items  specifically  noted  in  the  pre¬ 
ceding  pages,  making  up  the  contingent  budget  which  cannot  be  appropriated 
until  the  money  is  assured. 


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THE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  BOARDS 


A,  M.  286- 


home  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY  BUDGET  FOR  1922 

1920  1920  Current  Needed 


Net  Receipts 

National  Society .  $390,128 

Cal.  No .  17,337 

Cal.  .  29,675 

Conn .  45,902 

Ill .  33,353 

Iowa  .  20,277 

Kans .  14,636 

Maine  .  20,922 

Mass .  94,350 

Mich .  29,085 

Minn .  41,310 

Mo .  8,895 

Neb .  15,410 

N.  H .  15,332 

N.  Y .  42,161 

Ohio  .  15,373 

R.  1 .  6,687 

Vt .  17,801 

Wash .  20,592 

Wis .  25,862 

City  Societies  .  131,627 


Total . $1,036,715 


Less  Income  from  Investments,  Legacies, 


Expenditures 

Budget 

Budget 

$410,954 

$423,698 

$547,774 

18,636 

26,570 

27,000 

19,371 

20,101 

25,000 

45,902 

39,460 

50,000 

22,926 

34,360 

35,000 

16,557 

25,000 

25,000 

14,814 

15,530 

19,000 

20,763 

22,840 

27,000 

97,625 

107,529 

125,000 

25,827 

29,410 

30,000 

33,699 

42,457 

43,000 

8,487 

13,165 

13,000 

14,473 

15,920 

18,000 

14,261 

18,100 

18,500 

36,678 

40,345 

48,000 

18,469 

20,316 

24,000 

5,503 

6,415 

7,000 

20,622 

25,612 

26,500 

21,238 

25,500 

28,500 

20,007 

22,000 

26,000 

130,254 

143,280 

169,000 

$1,027,066 

$1,117,608 

$1,332,274 

etc . 

332,274 

Contributions  needed  . $1,000,000 

(0/  the  total  budget,  for  N.  Y.  office  arid  national  field  work:  1920,  $92,866; 
current  budget,  $85,950.) 

CHURCH  BUILDING  SOCIETY  BUDGET  FOR  1922 


1920  1922 

New  York  Office  and  National  Field  Work . $74,018  $44,200 

District  and  department  field  work .  16,513  190,000 

Property  upkeep,  taxes,  legal  fees .  6,006  6,000 

Grants  ana  Pans  to  churches .  467,944  633,800 


Total .  $564,481  $703,000 

{Current  C.  C.  B.  S.  Budget  about  $600,000.) 

Less  estimated  income: 

Repaid  loans  and  grants .  $185,000  . 

Property  sales .  38,000  . 

Legacies,  interest,  etc .  55,000  . 


Total . 

Contributions  needed 


$278,000  .  $278,000 

.  $425,000 


SUNDAY  SCHOOL  EXTENSION  SOCIETY  BUDGET 

FOR  1922 


1920  1922 

New  York  Office  and  National  Field  Work .  $22,855  $19,426 

Missionary  Service  of  National  Office .  38,414  61,590 

Missionary  Service  of  Cooperating  States .  15,694  25,200 

Grants  of  literature .  1,291  2,400 

Survey  items  contingent  on  receipts .  16,384 


Total .  $78,254  $125,000 

{Current  C.  S.  S.  E.  S.  budget,  $118,194.) 


THE  CONGREGATIONAL  BOARD 

OF  MINISTERIAL  RELIEF 


ME  work  of  this  Board  is  to  aid 
Congregational  ministers  re¬ 
tired  from  service,  widows  of 
ministers  and  orphaned  children  of 
ministers  who  are  too  young  for  self- 
support.  Fourteen  State  Relief  So¬ 
cieties  co-operate  in  this  task.  Grants 
are  made  on  the  ground  of  service 
rendered  and  to  meet  the  disasters  of 
life,  poverty,  sickness  and  sudden 
death. 

The  Year  1920 

The  National  Society  received  from 
gifts  and  other  incidental  sources 
$74,349.15  (besides  $6,712.67  from 
State  Societies)  ;  from  interest  on  en¬ 
dowment,  $60,129.97,  and  from  lega¬ 
cies,  to  be  added  to  endowment,  $15,- 
635.73.  $92,058.53  was  paid  to  383 

gi’antees,  and  $19,571.24  to  State 
Societies  for  distribution  by  them. 

The  State  Societies  received  $24,- 
045.87  from  contributions  (in  addi¬ 
tion  to  $19,571.24  from  the  National 
Society)  ;  $21,607.48  from  invest¬ 

ments,  and  $3,729.90  from  lega¬ 
cies.  $53,843.56  was  paid  to  287 
grantees  and  $6,712.67  to  the  National 
Society. 

A  study  of  these  figures  shows  how 
meager  are  our  pensions  to  life-long 
servants  of  the  churches.  Surely 
none  will  argue  that  our  askings 
under  the  $5,000,000  apportionment 
are  extravagant. 

The  National  and  State  Societies 
therefore  disbursed  $145,902.09  to  670 
pensioners,  representing  upwards  of 
1,000  persons. 

Multiplying  Appeals 

The  day  (August  10)  that  this  page 
is  prepared,  the  mail  brings  the  fol¬ 
lowing  applications : 

1.  From  Vermont.  For  one  of  the 
most  beloved  ministers,  retiring  from 
a  pastorate  of  38  years  at  the  age  of 


85,  having  completed  56  years  in  the 
active  ministry. 

2.  From  Illinois.  For  the  widow  of 
a  former  officer  of  the  National  Coun¬ 
cil,  left  with  three  young  children, 
who  has  sought  heroically  to  support 
herself  and  her  little  ones  by  teach¬ 
ing  school. 

3.  From  South  Dakota.  For  a  man 
75  years  of  age,  retiring  after  noble 
and  self-sacrificing  service. 

4.  From  California.  For  a  faithful 
minister  and  his  wife  that  their 
meager  grant  of  $150  should  be 
doubled. 

5.  From  Washington.  For  clothing 
for  a  man  76  years  of  age  and  his 
wife,  72  years. 

Imperative  and  Increasing  Obligation 

The  Board’s  full  apportionment  in 
1922  would  add  approximately  20  per 
cent  to  its  present  income,  exclusive 
of  legacies.  As  tlie  endowment  far 
more  than  covers  all  expenses,  this 
entire  increase  would  go  to  meet  iieAV 
applications;  to  enlarge  the  present 
inadequate  grants ;  and  to  enable  the 
Board  to  make  a  beginning  of  the 
proposed  Service  Pensions  ”  to  all 
retired  ministers  deprived  of  the  rea¬ 
sonable  comforts  of  age,  not  as  relief 
from  destitution,  but  as  a  tribute  of 
esteem  for  noble  service,  rendered 
with  such  slight  return  as  to  leave 
old  age  unguarded.  Applications 
pending  today,  if  granted,  would 
threaten  a  deficit  by  the  end  of  the 
year.  AIoreoA^er,  the  number  of  ap¬ 
plicants  is  bound  to  increase  until  a 
large  proportion  of  our  ministers 
reach  the  years  of  age  guarded  by  the 
beneficent  provisions  of  the  Annuity 
Fund.  Our  respect  and  love  for  our 
veterans  enhance  the  imperative, 

Now  when  I  am  old  and  gray¬ 
headed,  forsake  me  not.” 


THE  ANNUITY  FUND  FOR 

CONGREGATIONAL  MINISTERS 


HE  Annuity  Fund  is  the  organ¬ 
ization  authorized  by  the 
National  Council  to  provide  an¬ 
nuities  for  Congregational  ministers 
in  co-operation  with  the  ministers  and 
the  churches  and  to  administer  for 
this  purpose  the  income  of  the  Pilgrim 
Memorial  Fund  and  other  endow¬ 
ments. 

This  Fund  was  temporarily  placed 
upon  the  Apportionment  Schedule 
in  1921,  in  order  that  the  older  men 
now  annuitants,  or  about  to  become 
annuitants,  may  receive  the  largest 
practicable  benefit  from  the  movement 
for  the  protection  of  the  ministry,  and 
the  raising  of  The  Pilgrim  Memorial 
Fund. 

Of  the  maximum  annuity  of  $500, 
contemplated  by  the  certificates  under 
the  ''  Original  Plan,”  the  member’s 
payment  provides  $100  and  the  in¬ 
come  from  the  Endowment  Fund  at 
the  present  time  provides  $200.  The 
churches  are  asked  to  provide  the  re¬ 
maining  $200  by  the  assignment,  for 
this  purpose,  of  a  small  percentage  in 
the  Apportionment  Schedule.  With¬ 
out  this  provision  many  men  would 
pass  through  their  old  age  with  only 
a  portion  of  the  annuity  they  had 
hoped  to  receive,  for  the  trustees 
would  not  be  warranted  in  making 
full  payments  while  the  Pilgrim 
Memorial  Fund,  the  chief  endowment 
of  the  annuity  Fund,  is  only  partly 
collected.  For  1922  one  per  cent  of 
the  Apportionment  is  so  assigned. 

For  a  Few  Years  Only  and  Not  for 
Endowment 

These  contributions  from  the 
churches  are  not  to  increase  the  per¬ 
manent  funds.  When,  in  the  judg¬ 
ment  of  the  Actuary  and  the  Trustees, 
the  Endowment,  which  is  increasing 
steadily  day  by  day,  can  safely  as¬ 


sume  the  payment  of  the  full  annuity, 
a  place  in  the  Apportionment  wiU  no 
longer  be  required. 

Approved  by  the  National  Council 

The  National  Council  at  Los  An¬ 
geles  unanimously  adopted  the  follow¬ 
ing  resolutions  presented  through  the 
Commission  of  Missions: 

‘‘  Whereas,  The  ministers  now  ad¬ 
vanced  ill  their  ministry  will  not  be 
able  to  make  requisite  accumulation 
for  an  old  age  annuity  under  the 
'  Expanded  Plan  ’  in  the  compara¬ 
tively  brief  period  of  active  service 
remaining  to  them,  and 

Whereas,  The  '  Original  Plan,’ 
more  favorable  in  its  immediate  re¬ 
sults  for  these  older  men,  is  unable 
with  the  present  endowment  to  pay 
the  full  benefits  provided  by  the 
certificates  of  membership,  therefore. 
The  Commission  on  Missions 
recommends  the  continuance  of  the 
provision  through  the  Apportion¬ 
ment  Plan  to  enable  the  Annuity 
Fund  to  maintain  these  annuities  un¬ 
der  the  ‘  Original  Plan  ’  at  the  maxi¬ 
mum  after  January  1,  1922.  This 
will  provide  for  all  members  of  this 
Fund  who  have  served  the  churches 
for  thirty  years  an  annuity  of  $500.  ’  ’ 

Fulfilment  of  Sacrificial  Foresight 

More  than  1,000  men  are  members 
of  the  Annuity  Fund  under  the 

Original  Plan  ”  and  are  making 
annual  payments  from  their  scanty 
salaries  in  the  faith  that  the  churches 
will  provide  their  full  part.  By  de¬ 
voting  to  this  purpose  $1.00  in  each 
$100  given  under  the  Apportion¬ 
ment,  we  assure  these  faithful  min¬ 
isters  that  the  modest  protection  of 
their  age  to  which  they  have  looked 
forward  will  be  forthcoming.  TJie 
churches  surely  will  keep  faith  ivith 
these  men  of  God. 


THE  CONGREGATIONAL  WOMAN’S 
HOME  MISSIONARY  FEDERATION 


HE  Congregational  Woman’s 
Home  Missionary  Federation  is 
the  national  body  which  repre¬ 
sents  the  several  Woman’s  State 
flonie  Missionary  Unions  in  their 
work  for  the  advancement  of  Congre¬ 
gational  Homeland  Missions.  It  was 
organized  because 
of  two  needs  in¬ 
creasingly  felt  in 
our  woman’s  home 
missionary  work. 

One  of  these  was 
the  need  of  a  cen¬ 
tral  body  which 
should  represent 
C  0  n  g  r  e  gational 
women  interde- 
n  0  m  i  n  ationally, 
since  separate 
Unions  could  not 
.speak  for  the  de¬ 
nomination  ;  the 
other  the  need  of 
a  similar  body  to 
make  efficient  the 
work  undertaken 
by  the  state  organ¬ 
izations  througli 
a  closer  linking  to¬ 
gether  of  interests 
and  through  defi- 
11  i  t  e  promotion 
along  the  lines  of 
education  and  ac¬ 
tivities. 

Unity  in  the 
Federation  gives 
standing  with  the 
National  Council  and  the  National 
Homeland  Societies.  Through  the 
Federation,  Congregational  women 
are  represented  on  the  Council  of 
Women  for  Home  Missions  and  thus 
share  in  the  larger  interdenomina¬ 
tional  activities  and  interests  which 
are  becoming  more  and  more  impor¬ 


tant.  In  1919  tlie  Federation  assisted 
in  financing  representatives  at  twen¬ 
ty-three  such  Conferences. 

Working  through  its  constituent 
State  Unions,  the  Federation  pro¬ 
vides  home  mission  programs  and 
literature,  promotes  mission  study 

classes  and  con¬ 
ferences,  projects 
home  mission  cam¬ 
paigns  and  enter¬ 
prises,  and  by 
these  means  de¬ 
velops  in  our 
women  an  intelli¬ 
gent  interest  in 
and  support  of  de¬ 
nominational  re¬ 
sponsibilities. 

Through  the 
Pilgrim  Prayer 
Guild  the  Federa- 
t  i  0  n  co-operates 
with  the  Commis¬ 
sion  on  Evangel¬ 
ism.  The  Guild 
is  a  Fellowship 
and  its  purpose  is 
to  deepen  the 
prayer  life  that 

til  is  unused  power 
may  lie  released 
for  service  by 
ihose  women  who 
for  any  reason  are 
unable  to  engage 
in  the  more  active 
service  for  the 

Kingdom  of  God; 
to  bring  these  women  into  heart¬ 
warming  touch  with  those  who  are 

able  to  assemble  at  stated  times  for 

prayer,  study  and  work;  to  direct 
this  work  that  it  may  be  the  control¬ 
ling  influence  in  personal  co-opera¬ 
tion  of  life,  service  and  gifts.  Liter¬ 
ature  is  provided  and  devotional 


THE  CONGREGATIONAL 
WOMAN'S  HONE 
MISSIONARY  FEDERATION 

THROUGH 

State  Unions,  Association, 
Alliance  or  County 
Organizations 
and 

The  Local  Church 

PROMOTES 

Efficient  Organization 
Mission  Study 
Summer  fonference  Attendance 
Work  for  Young  People 
and  Children 

An  intelligent  interest  in 
and  support  of  the  work  of 
the  Home  Societies 


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THE  WOMAN^S  HOME  MISSIONARY  FEDERATION  A,  M.  290 


reading  recommended,  including  tlie 
Lenten  Fellowship  of  Prayer  .pro¬ 
vided  by  the  Commission  on  Evangel¬ 
ism  of  the  National  CVmncil. 

OUR  FINANCES 

lIeretofoj*e  the  income  of  tlie  Fed¬ 
eration  has  come  from  funds  pro¬ 
rated  among  the  Homeland  Societies 
and  also  from  dues  of  the  State 
Fnions  based  upon  the  annual  re¬ 
ceipts  of  the  Unions. 

In  order  that  the  Woman’s  Home 
^Missionary  Federation  mav  moi-e 
fully  i*ep]*esent  the  Woman’s  State 
11  omc  jMissionarv 

t' 

Unions  nationally, 
some  change  in  its 
financing  is  im- 
j)eratiYe.  The  nec¬ 
essary  promotional 
(‘xpense  incurred 
by  tlie  S  t  a  t  e 
Unions  in  raising 
their  share  of  the 
money  for  national 
benevolence  should 
be  credited  on  ap¬ 
portionment. 

At  a  meeting  of 
the  secretaries  of 
the  National 
Homeland  Socie¬ 
ties  June  16,  1921, 
the  following  rec- 
0  m  m  e  n  d  a  tions 
were  offered  liy  a 
subcommittee  of 
the  Federation, 

Avere  approved  by  the  secretaries  and 
later  favorably  voted  upon  by  the 
Commission  on  Missions  June  25,  as 
folloAvs : 


THE  WOMAN’S  HOME 
MISSIONARY  UNIONS 

Share 

In  the  support  of  missionary 
pastors  and  Sunday  School 
workers 

In  the  establishment  of  hospi¬ 
tals  and  social  centers 

In  the  building  of  churches  and 
parsonages 

In  the  maintenance  of  Christian 
education 

In  the  work  of  Ministerial  Relief 

IN  THE  WHOLE  TASK  OF 
MAKING  AMERICA  A 
CHRISTIAN  LAND 


On  the  basis  of  the  increased  ap¬ 
portionment  this  will  furnish  an  in¬ 
come  which  will  make  it  possible  for 
the  Federation  to  do  the  expanding 
work  it  is  called  upon  to  do;  this 
pi  mi  to  become  opeixitive  January  1, 
1922.  The  total  receipts -of  the  State 
Unions  will  be  reported  in  the  C.  W. 
H.  M.  F.  column  in  the  National 
Council  Year  Book. 

THE  STATE  UNIONS 

Thirty-nine  State  Unions  are 
united  in  the  Congregational 
Woman’s  Home  Missionary  Federa¬ 
tion.  Each  Union 
is  r  e  s  p  0  n  s  i  b  1  e 
witliin  its  own  ter¬ 
ritory  for  the  car¬ 
rying  on  of  the  wo¬ 
man ’s  home  mis¬ 
sionary  work.  Each 
Union,  therefore, 
faces  a  twofold 
task.  First,  the 
missionary  educa¬ 
tion  of  its  women, 
second,  the  meet¬ 
ing  of  its  financial 
responsibilities. 

A  most  neces¬ 
sary  and  efficient 
activity  of  the 
State  Unions  is 
represented  by  the 
home  service — the 
provision  for  the 
needs  of  our  mis¬ 
sionaries  in  their 
homes  by  the  family  boxes  prepared 
by  local  auxiliaries  and  sent  as  a  token 
of  good  will  to  these  missionaries 
who  prize  them  most  highly. 


(1)  That  the  Unions  retain  5  per 
cent  of  their  total  contributions  to  the 
Homeland  Societies  to  meet  the  pro¬ 
motional  expense  of  raising  the 
money.  In  this  case  the  National  So¬ 
cieties  Avill  not  rebate  5  per  cent  of 
these  gifts  as  heretofore. 

(2)  That  the  State  Unions  pay  to 
the  Federation  not  less  than  2  per 
cent  of  their  total  receipts  to  finance 
the  Federation. 


Co-operating  with  the  Joint  Com¬ 
mittee  on  Missionary  Education,  the 
Federation  provides  outlines  for 
young  people’s  organizations,  pro¬ 
grams  and  missionary  activities. 
There  must  be  efficient  organization 
if  tasks  such  as  these  are  to  be  accom¬ 
plished  and  this  involves  a  plan  of 
work  by  which  the  State  Union  is  fa¬ 
miliarized  with  the  fields  where  its 
money  is  assigned.  With  these  fields 


A.  M,291  THU  WOMAN^S  HOME  MISSIONARY  FEDERATION 


S35 


it  establishes  j)ersoMal  relationships 
that  their  needs  may  be  visualized. 

Tlie  State  Unions  are  actively  in- 
tei-ested  in  impoitant  denominational 
eiitei’pi'i^os.  These  include  fields  of 
all  the  Homeland  Societies. 

AMERICANIZATION 

Congregational  women  have  definite 
obligations  to  the  foreign  women 
in  our  midst  and  have  made  large 
investment  in  the  building  and 
equipment  of  Schauffler  Missionary 
Training  School,  as  well  as  provid¬ 
ing  scholarships  that  trained  work¬ 
ers  may  intelligently  and  sympathet¬ 
ically  present  the  claims  of  Chris¬ 
tian  ideals.  The  Unions  also  support  a 
goodly  number  of  the  missionaries  who 
are  preaching  the  Gospel  to  the  stran¬ 
ger  within  our  gates.  (See  page  21). 


CHURCHES  AND  PARSONAGES 

During  1919  thirty-seven  Unions 
sent  to  the  treasuiy  of  the  Chin-ch 
Building  Society  $18,000  to  make  pos¬ 
sible  sanctuaries  for  the  woi'ship  of 
God  and  homes  for  our  ministers. 

Women’s  State  Unions  support 
work  in  Negro  Schools  (See  page  6) 
and  among  the  Highlanders  of  the 
mountains  of  Tennessee,  Georgia  and 
the  Carolinas  (See  page  10).  During 
the  year  1919  the  State  Unions  sent  to 
the  treasury  of  The  American  Mis¬ 
sionary  Association  $51,129.16.  Schol¬ 
arships  in  our  Education  Society 
academies  and  colleges  are  always  at¬ 
tractive  and  the  State  Unions  desig¬ 
nated  $10,000  for  these  scholarships  in 
1919. 


PLEASE  LET  US  HELP? 


HEY  only  lasted  five  minutes 
each,  those  four  Sunday  School 
addresses,  but  they  were  talks 
concerning  missionary  activities,  and 
were  made 
by  a  live 
home  mis- 
s  i  0  n  a  r  y 
worker,  and 
really  meant 
someth  i  n  g 
to  those  who 
heard  them. 

They  were 
made  o  n 
four  succes¬ 
sive  Sun¬ 
days  before 
the  mem¬ 
bers  of  a 
g  r  o  w  i  n  g 
school  in 
the  Southwest  with  growing  inte]*est. 

On  the  fourth  Sunday  the  speaker 
was  invited  into  the  Primary  Depart¬ 
ment,  where  the  little  folks  handed 
her  a  one  dollar  bill  asking  her  to  use 
it  in  building  churches  or  organizing 
Sunday  Schools  where  people  could 
learn  to  be  good.  Then  they  were  told 
of  a  Mexican  Mission,  where  the 


roof  had  been  blown  off  the  Imilding, 
and  the  little  folks  asked  that  their 
offering  might  go  to  that  place.  It 
will  not  put  on  the  new  roof,  but  it 

will  h  e  1  p. 
und  above 
all  0  t  h  e  1* 
t  li  i  n  g  s  , 
teacli  those 
little  people 
the  gladness 
of  giving. 

Immemo- 
rially,  the 
women  have 
been  glean¬ 
ers  foi'  mis¬ 
sions.  There' 
a,  r  e  hun- 
d  r  e  d  s  of 
tliousa,  n  d  s 
o  f  dollai'S 
waiting  thus  to  he  gathered  in.  But 
in  addition  to  this  important  service 
the  women  of  our  churches  set  them¬ 
selves  to  secure  regular  and  substan¬ 
tial  support  of  all  our  missionary  en¬ 
deavors.  For  the  Homeland  Societies 
their  aim  for  1922  is  $700,000,  or 
more  than  twice  as  much  as  was  raised 
in  1920. 


THE  AMERICAN  BOARD  OF  COM¬ 
MISSIONERS  FOR  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 


Founded  in  i8io,  the  oldest  Foreign  Mission  Board  in  America.  As 
pioneers  in  many  fields,  its  missionaries  have  opened  doors  for  the  Gospel' 
of  Christ  and  for  Christian  Civilization  throughout  the  world. 


The  Cabinet  Officers  ^ 

Standing, .from  left  to  right:  Secretaries  Bell,  Clark,  Belcher  (Assist.  Treas.), 
Edd3\  Seated:  Secretaries  Strong,  Barton,  Gaskins  (Treasurer),  Patton. 


AN  INVENTORY  OF  A  GREAT  WORK 

19  Missions,  working  in  30  different  languages. 

800  Missionaries  and  associate  missionaries. 

4,941  Native  teachers,  preachers,  and  helpers. 

1,252  Schools,  in  19  great  Missions. 

70,000  Pupils  in  all  schools — the  leaders  of  the  future. 

30  Colleges,  normal  and  training  schools. 

12,000  College  boys  and  girls  under  training. 

82  Hospitals,  centers  of  relief  and  preventive  medicine. 
500,000  Treatments  per  year  in  the  name  of  Christ  Love. 
$2,100,000  Total  receipts  from  churches  and  friends. 

$275,000  Contributions  of  native  churches. 


A.  M.  293 


THE  AMERICAN  BOARD 


S37 


YESTERDAY  AND  TO-MORROW 

In  all  the  Board’s  history  no  greater  victory  was  ever  achieved  from 
out  the  jaws  of  calamity.  On  July  1  a  current  deficit  for  this  year  alone  of 
-$200,000  was  revealed  in  the  figures,  in  addition  to  the  debt  of  $242,000  carried 
over  from  1920.  The  facts  were  spread  abroad  and  answers  poured  in.  When 
the  books  closed  we  had  cleared  the  year  safely  and  taken  from  the  old  debt 
$80,614.  A  deep  sense  of  gratitude  to  God  pervades  every  word  of  this  Survey. 
Clearly  this  work  is  in  God’s  hands. 

Every  friend  of  the  Board  enters  the  new  year  with  a  sense  of  guidance 
and  achievement.  All  records  for  gifts  have  been  broken.  Receipts  from 
individual  givers  in  answer  to  the  special  appeal  exceeded  highest  hopes.  In 
spite  of  business  depression  3,400  loyal  supporters  sent  in  their  gifts,  piling 
up  the  gratifying  total  of  $124,000,  an  increase  of  100%  over  last  year.  The 
increased  goal  of  the  new  Apportionment  produced  a  gain  of  $91,856  from 
the  church  treasuries.  More  than  two  hundred  cliurches  sent  gifts  which  gave 
not  a  penny  last  year.  When  More  People  give  a  Larger  Gift,  then  Loyalty, 
Determination  and  Sacrifice  are  Here. 

WHAT  OF  THE  FUTURE  > 

This  Survey  is  published  too  early  to  print  the  actual  budget  for  1922. 
The  National  Council  has  declared  tliat  retrenchment  is  unthinkal)le.  They 
direct  the  Board  to  go  forward  with  courage.  But  the  new  l)udget  must  be 
based  upon  receipts,  rather  than  upon  needs.  Something  like  $80,000  must 
iie  written  into  the  budget  to  reduce  the  de1)t.  Rigorous  economies  will  be 
pushed  further  as  costs  come  down,  but  we  cannot  meet  the  demands  of  the 
work  unless  the  Board  receives  its  full  share  of  the  whole  apportionment. 

Apart  from  the  Woman’s  Boards,  the  apportionment  donations  this  yeai* 
were  less  than  $850,000.  The  Board’s  full  share  of  the  $5,000,000  Appoi*- 
tionment  would  be  $1,275,000,  AN  ACTUAL  AND  NEEDED  INCREASE 
OF  $425,000.  With  this  we  could  meet  every  item  in  this  Stjrvey,  expaiid 
our  colleges,  replace  outworn  buildings,  extend  the  merciful  work  of  oui’ 
hospitals  and  multiply  our  churches  and  conveils  in  every  field.  If  tlu' 
churches  will  pour  in  the  full  Apportionment  your  missionaries  will  hea]) 
up  the  proofs  of  God’s  grace  and  of  the  power  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ. 


THE  STORY  IN  FIGURES— INCLUDING ^THE  WOMAN’S  BOARDS 


Receipts 

American  Board  Receipts .  $1,404,154 

Received  from  Woman’s  Boards .  556,403 


Total  Receipts  .  $1,960,617 

Expenditures 

Cost  of  Missions .  $1,710,395 

Home  Administration  (American  Board  only)  .  169,608 

Paid  Off  on  Last  Year’s  Deficit . •.  .  80,614 


Total  Expenditures  .  $1,900,617 


BOARD’S  SHARE  OF  APPORTIONMENT  NOT  RECEIVED 


$425,000 


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THE  AMERICAN  BOARD 


A, M. 294 


THE  ASSETS  OF  HUMAN  DEVOTION 

devotion  of  four  generations  of  earnest  Christians  is  back  of  the 
/  J  American  Board.  The  prayers,  the  money,  the  lives  of  hundreds  of 
VJr  tliousands  of  lovers  of  Christ  and  men  have  gone  into  this  far-reaching 
service  for  the  human  race.  Today  this  devotion  is  exemplified  in  the  gifts  of 
half  a  million  souls,  in  the  free  service  of  many  thousands  at  home,  and  par¬ 
ticularly  in  the  self-sacrificing  labors  of  800  missionaries  who  represent  the 
Ijest  America  can  give,  the  truest  idealism  of  our  couiury  in  its  service  for  the 
world,  and  a  sul3lime  ol)edience  to  the  commands  of  Christ  in  the  service  of 
liumanity.  They  have  offered  their  life  service  for  the  sowing  and  reaping 
inade  possible  by  our  dollars.  Every  subscription  for  the  Apportionment  and 
for  personal  gifts  has  behind  it  this  living,  praying,  personal  investment  of 
your  missionary  staff. 


TYPICAL  WORKERS  OF  THE  FIGHTING  FRONT 


Lorin  A.  Shepard,  M.D.,  of  Aintab,  Turkey,  the  son  of  a  famous  missionary 
father,  graduate  of  Yale  and  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New 
York ;  like  all  the  missionaries  in  Turkey,  he  has  faced  war,  disease,  and  chaos. 

A  brighter  day  is  coming,  for  which  we 
pray. 


DR.  SHEPARD 


Rev.  Hugh  Hubbard  of  Paotingfu, 
China,  tells  of  extraordinary  opportuni¬ 
ties  in  evangelistic  work.  The  gifts  froni 
the  Sunday  Schools  should  send  workers 
into  five  new  counties.  Christ’s  message 
never  had  a  greater  hearing,  nor  bigger 
results  than  today  in  China.  Hubbard, 
from  Amherst  and  Union  Seminary,  rep¬ 
resents  the  new  generation  of  young  mis¬ 
sionaries,  and  faces  the  new  day  dawn- 


HUGH  HUBBARD 


ing  in  China. 


Rev.  Prank  Laubach  of  Mindanao,  about  to  enter  new  lines  of  educational 
work,  striving  to  lay  deep  foundations  for  the  future  Union  Christian  Church 
of  the  Islands,  a  brilliant  speaker  and  a  prophet  of  the  brighter  dawn  remind¬ 
ing  us  of  the  needs  of  reinforcement  and 
equipment  for  our  small  group  of  work¬ 
ers  in  Mindanao. 

Rev.  C.  C.  Fuller,  South  Africa,  rep¬ 
resents  the  practical  approach  of  the 
missionary  to  backward  peoples. 

Through  preaching  and  teaching, 
through  agriculture  and  industry,  new 
standards  are  implanted.  Africa  waits  c.  c.  fuller 
with  vast  stretches  yet  unreached. 


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FOREIGN  MISSIONS  AND  INTERNATIONALISM 

**They  shall  speak  of  the  glorious  majesty  of  His  Kingdom.'* 


EDAVARD  EVERETT 
iIlI  hale  once  said  it  marked  a 
new  epoch  in  human  affairs 
when  for  the  first  time,  at  a  meeting 
held  in  the  interest  of  the  American 
Board,  a  map  of  the  world  was  hung 
in  a  New  England  pulpit.  lie  explain¬ 
ed  how  that  event  inaugurated  the 
process  of  educating  the  people  of 
the  United  States  in  the  conditions 
and  the  affairs  of  other  countries. 
The  international  mind,  of  which  we 
are  hearing  so  much  in  these  days, 
got  its  start  at  that  time. 

With  equal  truth  and  propriety, 
Dr.  Hale  might  have  added  that  from 
the  hanging  of  the  map  in  the  pulpit 
began  also  the  process  by  which  the 
non-Christian  world  has  come  to  its 
knowledge  of  America,  as  a  land 
which  stands  not  only  for  industrial 
and  commercial  strength,  but  for  jus¬ 
tice  and  goodwill  towards  all  man¬ 
kind.  For  over  100  years  the  foreign 
missionary  has  been  the  true  inter¬ 
preter  of  American  ideals  and  life. 
Through  him,  in  spite  of  the  hauteur, 
discourtesy  and  ofttimes  dishonesty 
and  immorality  of  worldly  Americans 
visiting  foreign  lands,  the  non-Chris¬ 
tian  nations  for  the  most  part  under¬ 
stand  what  America  really  is.  And 
that,  in  no  small  measure,  accounts 
for  the  fact  that  the  backward  nations 
everywhere  today  are  looking  to 
America  for  example  and  help. 

Tell  us  the  secret  of  America’s 
greatness  and  success,”  said  a  com¬ 
pany  of  Chinese  officials  and  literati 
in  an  interior  city.  When  informed 
by  a  representative  of  the  American 
Board  that  we  trace  our  greatness  and 
success  to  the  fact  that  we  received 
our  ideals  from  the  Pilgrim  Fathers, 
who  founded  the  nation  for  God,  and 
who  stood  for  the  principles  of  democ¬ 
racy  in  Church  and  State,  the  magis¬ 
trate  who  was  presiding  replied,  ‘‘  I 
am  convinced  you  have  spoken  the 
truth  and  that  China’s  hope  lies  in 
the  same  direction.” 


The  war  has  brought  a  new  status  to 
the  missionary;  he  is  recognized  now 
as  the  true  internationalist,  the  ac¬ 
knowledged  builder  of  the  sure  foun¬ 
dation  for  world  peace  and  prosperity. 
Statesmen,  educators,  captains  of  in¬ 
dustry  vie  with  one  another  in  urg¬ 
ing  that  the  Church  of  Christ,  with 
its  message  of  righteousness,  peace 
and  goodwill,  holds  the  solution  for 
the  world ’s  woe.  The  American 
Board  is  the  agent  of  the  Congrega¬ 
tional  Churches  for  the  applying  of 
that  solution ;  through  it  we  all  ma.y 
have  a  hand  in  the  healing  of  the 
nations.  ’  ’ 

At  the  time  of  the  Paris  Peai'c 
Conference,  the  official  delegation  of 
the  Georgian  Republic  waited  upon  a 
representative  of  the  Ainerican  Boai*d 
and  urged  that  missionaries  should  be 
sent  to  them,  in  order  that  their  na¬ 
tion  might  have  schools  and  hospitals 
such  as  their  neighbors  the  Arme¬ 
nians  had  received  at  our  hands. 
■‘We  are  too  weak  and  ignorant,” 
they  declared,  “  to  stand  alone.  We 
need  your  help  if  we  are  to  be  a  true 
democracy.”  As  showing  what  tbe 
Gospel  of  Christ  can  do  to  change 
the  temper  and  thought  of  a  people 
and  to  offset  mistaken  views  of  na¬ 
tionalism,  it  should  be  noted  that  the 
Protestant  Christians  of  Japan  with 
remarkable  unanimity  have  opposed 
the  oppressive  policy  of  that  country 
towards  Koi*ea,  and  today  are  found 
in  the  front  ranks  of  the  liberal  party 
which  is  seeking  to  overthrow  the  mii- 
itary  regime  and  to  establish  demo¬ 
cratic  principles  and  institutions. 

Clearly  this  is  no  time  to  let  the 
work  of  the  American  Board  lan¬ 
guish;  rather  we  must  rally  to  its  sup¬ 
port  with  new  loyalty  and  apprecia¬ 
tion.  A  battleship  in  these  days  costs 
$30,000,000.  The  American  Board 
last  year  cost  $2,000,000.  We  need 
battleships,  no  doubt ;  but  far  more 
we  need  the  Ambassadors  of  Christ  to 
foreign  lands. 


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A,  M.  296 


MEDICAL  MISSIONS 

**Heal  the  Sick^* 


WHAT  FIGURES  SHOW 


Medical  Missionaries .  45 

Foreign  Nurses .  12 

Hospitals .  32 


WHAT  FIGURES  SHOW 

Dispensaries  .  50 

Patients  (estimated) . 154,000 

Treatments  (estimated) .... 504,000 


ICKNESS  is  always  pitiful, 
wherever  it  occurs,  but  sickness 
in  mission  lands  makes  an  ap¬ 
peal  for  relief  that  is  fairly  agoniz¬ 
ing.  For  the  malpractice  of  native  doc¬ 
tors  multiplies  its  dangers  and  dis¬ 
tress,  superstition  sharpens  its  ter¬ 
rors,  and  cold-hearted  self-interest 
casts  out  to  their  fate  the  weak  and 
defenceless,  the  infant  and  the  aged. 

No  part  of  the  American  Board’s 
ministry  is  more  widely  appreciated 
or  more  influential  than  its  hand  of 
help  for  the  prevention  and  relief  of 
disease.  The  missionaiy  physicians 
and  nurses,  the  hospitals  and  dispen¬ 
saries,  are  outstanding  gifts  of  Christ 
tliroughout  the  non-Christian  lands. 

After  all,  figures  like  those  above 
tell  l)ut  little  of  the  story.  They  do 
not  show  the  locations  of  the  work. 
The  Board’s  different  fields  never  pre¬ 
sent  equal  need  of  the  medical  mis¬ 
sionary.  Japan,  the  Balkan  states, 
Czechoslovakia,  Spain  and  Mexico  al¬ 
ready  have  modern 
medical  knowledge 
and  equipment. 
The  need  today  is 
greatest  in  the 
huge  and  populous 
lands  of  China, 
India  (with  Cey¬ 
lon),  Africa,  and 
Turkey.  In  them 
the  Board’s  medi¬ 
cal  effort  is  largely 
centered. 

Nor  do  the  fig¬ 
ures  show  the  scope 
and  influence  of 
this  work ;  w^hat  is 


Dr.  Frank  Van  Allen 

For  33  years  medical 
missionary  at  Madura, 
South  India,  and  head 
of  the  famous  Albert 
Victor  Memorial  Hos¬ 
pital.  the  gift  of 
grateful  patients. 


lieing  accomplished  in  dealing  with 
plague  in  the  interior  provinces  of 
North  China,  or  by  inoculation  to 
stamp  out  an  epidemic  of  typhus  in 
India  or  Turkey ;  or  in  indoctrinating 
communities  with  the  primary  prin¬ 
ciples  of  sanitation  until  they  show 
better  houses,  cleaner  babies  and  less 
malaria  and  tuberculosis.  The  whole 
field  of  preventive  medicine,  of  physi¬ 
cal  culture  and  instruction,  is  not 
reflected  in  any  statistics. 

The  prestige  and  good  will  which 
are  gained  by  these  efforts  of  medi¬ 
cal  missionaries  cannot  be  indicated 
by  figures.  The  work  of  doctors  and 
nurses  in  North  China  during  times 
of  plague,  famine  and  flood  has  won 
the  esteem- and  co-operation  of  gov¬ 
ernors  of  provinces  and  high  officials ; 
likewise  the  regard  of  princes  of  na¬ 
tive  states  and  district  officials  in  In¬ 
dia  has  been  drawn  to  the  mission¬ 
ary  enterprise  through  the  generous 
and  skilled  devotion  to  the  public 
welfare  of  medical 
missionaries.  When 
Dr.  Cyril  Haas  of 
Adana,  Central 
Turkey,  was 
stricken  with 
typhus  fever  two 
years  or  more  ago, 
special  prayer  was 
offered  for  his  re¬ 
covery  in  the 
Mohammedan 
mosques  of  the 
city,  the  sugges- 

tion  coming  from  of  Wiinams  Hospital, 
the  milltarv  com-  famine  and  flood  relief 
mandcr  of  the  re- 


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gion  who  had  greatly  appreciated  the 
services  of  the  hospital  and  of  the  doc¬ 
tor  in  charge. 

Nor  do  figures  show  what  is  accom¬ 
plished  in  the  prolonged  contacts  and 
intimacies  of  hospital  experiences. 
The  mission  hospital  in  Davao 
in  the  Philippines  has  done  much  to 
overcome  the  fears  and  seclusion  of 
the  wild  tribes  back  in  the  hills.  In 
the  interior  provinces  of  China,  off 
the  line  of  railroad,  the  medical 
missionary  has  been  most  effective  in 
dispelling  the  fear  of  the  ‘‘  foreign 
devils.”  The  fanaticism  of  religious 
devotees  and  the  despairing  self- 
abasement  of  outcasts  in  India  have 
again  and  again  been  overcome 
through  the  ministry  of  medicine  to 
the  relief  of  their  sickness  and  pain. 
And  in  Africa,  where  the  most  en¬ 
trenched  foe  against  the  progress  of 
Christianity  is  the  witch  doctor  with 
his  charms  and  his  tyranny,  the  best 
ground-breaker  is  the  medical  mis¬ 
sionary.  The  spread  of  the  Gospel, 
the  getting  hold  in  villages  and  dis¬ 
tricts  before  untouched,  has  been  due 
repeatedly  to  the  good  reports  that 
have  been  carried  home  by  those  who 
have  been  blessed  in  mission  hospitals. 

Again,  figures  do  not  reflect  what  is 
accomplished  in  infusing  the  spirit  of 
helpful  service  into  nurses  taught  to 
give  of  their  best  to  their  suffering 
people.  They  are  coming  out  now  from 
training  schools  connected  with  one 
and  another  of  these  hospitals,  first 
fruits  of  an  enterprise  which  is  to  fur¬ 
nish  the  trained 'hand  and  the  loving 
heart  to  meet  the  calls  of  pain  and 
distress.  China’s  recent  experience 
of  famine  over  wide  areas  and  includ¬ 
ing  countless,  multitudes  of  its  people 
revealed  the  new  spirit  of  sympathy, 
tenderness  and  responsibility  for  the 
sick  on  the  part  of  the  Chinese  who 
had  had  the  experience  of  hospital 
service  and  of  nurses  ’  training 
schools. 

It  is  impressive  to  think  how  little 
this  ministry  of  mercy  costs ;  how 
much  a  dollar  given  to  its  support  ac¬ 
complishes.  Amei’ican  Board  hos¬ 


pitals  expect  to  receive  from  the 
Board  Treasury  little  more  than  the 
support  of  the  foreign  staff.  Hospitals 
and  dispensary  fees  and  gifts  of 
grateful  patients  meet  to  a  large  ex¬ 
tent  the  other  expenses.  And  the 
buildings  and  equipment  for  this 
medical  work  abroad  cost  absurdly 
small  amounts  as  compared  with  such 
undertakings  in  this  land.  The  an¬ 
nual  outlay  on  a  single  hospital  in  a 
city  of  100,000  in  the  United  States 
in  addition  to  the  fees  it  collects, 
would  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  annual 
cost  to  the  American  Board’s  Treas¬ 
ury  of  maintaining  all  its  medical 
work,  covering  eighty-two  hospitals 
and  dispensaries,  and  serving  154,000 
patients. 

Good  testimony  to  the  value  and 
efficiency  of  medical  missions  is  the 
fact  that  the  China  Medical  Board 
which  is  spending  millions  of  dollars 
to  introduce  western  standards  of 
medical  science  in  China  is  aiding  the 
American  Board  in  the  maintenance 
of  two  of  its  North  China  hospitals. 

Pre-eminent  among  the  needs  of  the 
Board’s  medical  work  just  now  is  the 
taking  back  of  seven  hospitals  in  Tur¬ 
key  whose  work  was  assumed  by  the 
Near  East  Relief  during  war  days, 
and  upon  which  that  body  spent  over 
a  million  dollars  in  renovation  and 
equipment ;  which  investment  it  is 
l)repared  to  turn  over  to  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Board  upon  condition  thai  it  will 
accept  the  responsibility  of  main¬ 
tenance.  The  general  poverty  oc¬ 
casioned  by  the  Avai*  will  compel  a 
subsidy  to  these  hospitals  for  a  few 
years,  an  annual  outlay  in  all  of  per¬ 
haps  $40,000  a  year,  which  sum  must 
be  secured  if  this  work  is  to  be  saved. 

If — The  calls  for  Christ-like  min¬ 
istry  are  practically  unlimited.  If 
the  Board  should  receive  its  full  ap¬ 
portionment,  it  could  consider  send¬ 
ing  one  more  medical  missionary  to 
China,  one  to  India,  one  to  Africa,  at 
an  average  expense  of  $3,000  each, 
and  possibly  reopen  four  of  the  seven 
hosj^itals  in  Turkey  at  an  annual  out¬ 
lay  of  $20,000. 


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A. M.  298 


INDUSTRIAL  MISSIONS 


**To  Make  Them  Not  Only  Good,  But  Good  For  Something.** 


Experimental  Farms 

Seed  Selection  and  Distribution 
Development  of  Stock  Breeds 

Industrial  Training  in  Boarding  Schools 
Domestic  Science  Training  for  Girls 

Better  Training  for  Many  Trades 

A  Development  of  Modern  Missions  Bringing  Practical  and  Industrial  Advantages 

to  Backward  Communities 


NE  HUNDRED  years  ago  a 
farmer  and  a  printer  were  in¬ 
cluded  in  the  missionary  party 
sailing  with  Hiram  Bingham  to 
Hawaii.  The  early  missionaries  to 
the  Indians  included  Agriculture  in 
their  teachings.  Most  of  our  mission¬ 
aries  have  given  practical  advice  and 
instruction  to  their  schools  and  con¬ 
gregations.  Civilization  has  a  hun¬ 
dred  tongues  to  speak  its  message  to 
backw'ard  peoples. 

Prof.  Peabody,  of  Harvard,  once 
said  that  a  traveler  in  Turkey  could 
tell  that  he  Avas  approaching  an  Amer¬ 
ican  Board  iMission  Station  from  the 
better  farms,  better  homes,  cleaner  vil- 
age  streets,  and  general  improvement 
of  the  countryside.  This  is  an  ideal 
commendation  of  mission  AAmrk  on  its 
pi’actieal  side.  The  monumental  vol¬ 
umes  of  Dr.  Dennis’s  Christian  Mis¬ 
sions  and  Social  Progress,”  i)rove  the 
vast  results  of  such  mission  work  for 
uplift  of  mind,  relief  of  ])Overty,  ban¬ 
ishment  of  infection,  successful  war¬ 
fare  on  disease, 
great  public  re¬ 
forms,  and  the 
abatement  of  the 
evils  of  barbarism. 

In  any  program 
of  expansion  and 
development  of  the 
Board’s  enterprise 
this  line  of  work 
must  be  greatly 
emphasized,  as  the 
p  0  p  u  lations  Ave 
seiwe  are  mainly 
agricultural  in  oc¬ 
cupation.  This  is 
overAAdielmingly  so 
in  Africa,  India 
and  China.  Agri¬ 


cultural  missions,  in  Avhich  the  Amer¬ 
ican  Board  has  been  engaged  for  one 
liundred  years,  are  now  commending 
themselves  to  other  boards  and  are 
having  a  iioteAvorthy  development.  At 
the  same  time  Ave  do  not  overlook  the 
other  industries  like  carpentry,  black- 
smithing,  leather  AA^orking,  brick  mak¬ 
ing,  etc.  A  hundred  thousand  dollars 
might  aatII  be  spent  immediately  in 
enriching  the  industrial  departments 
of  our  schools  and  colleges. 

In  China 

Dr.  EdAvard  L.  Bliss  and  Mr. 
Charles  Riggs,  an  Agricultural  grad¬ 
uate,  conduct  an  experimental  farm, 
selecting  seeds,  vines,  and  small  fruits 
adapted  to  the  thousands  of  acres  of 
barren  hillsides  which  ought  to  be¬ 
come  fields  and  gardens.  The  stan¬ 
dard  of  living  of  thousands  of  farm¬ 
ers  is  being  raised  through  better 
stock  breeding,  improved  agricultural 
methods,  poultry  raising,  and  indus¬ 
trial  training  for  their  children. 

If — There  is  .just 
one  agricultural 
station  for  all 
Chin  a — hunger¬ 
ing  China !  If  the 
.1^5,000,000  is  sub¬ 
scribed,  the  send¬ 
ing  of  one  more  ag¬ 
ricultural  mission¬ 
ary  to  China  could 
be  considered,  cost¬ 
ing  $3,000. 

In  the  Balkans 

The  well-knoAAm 
missionary,  D  r . 

House,  has  brought 
his  experimental 
farm  to  a  high 


Rev.  J.  Henry  House, 
D.D. 

Cresiclent  Agricultural 
and  Industrial  Insti¬ 
tute  at  Salonica,  who 
is  proving  that  an 
industrial  school  can 
be  thoroughly  Chris¬ 
tian,  and  whose  work 
is  praised  by  the 
Greek  Government. 


Albert  E.  EeRoy. 

Principal  of  Aman- 
zimtoti  Institute,  “the 
Hampton  of  Natal,” 
who  is  training  Zulu 
young  men  for  leader¬ 
ship  in  native  affairs, 
and  whose  work  re- 
■ceives  generous  help 
from  the  British  Gov¬ 
ernment,  which  knows 
a  strong  missionary 
when  it  sees  one. 


A.  M, 299 


THE  AMERICAN  BOARD 


S43 


state  of  usefulness.  Seeds,  plants, 
and  fruits  are  available  for  the  Dis¬ 
trict,  and  large  uuiiibers  of  boys 
receive  a  modern  practical  ■  train¬ 
ing.  The  Government  fidly  approves 
the  results  of  such  work.  No  opposi¬ 
tion  is  stirred.  A  recent  gift  of  $50,- 
000  has  been  promised  from  the  Hall 
estate  to  enlarge  the  usefulness  of 
this  institution. 

In  Africa 

Amanzimtoti  Institute  is  our 

IJampton  ”  for  South  Africa. 
Here  boys  and  girls  are  trained  to 
earn  a  livelihood  and  to  render  an 
honest  day’s  work  in  various  trades. 
The  Government  helps  to  support 
these  departments.  Last  summer, 
under  Government  direction,  an  Ag¬ 
ricultural  Conference  gathered  all 
our  Christian  teachers  and  preachers, 
and  gave  them  agricultural  and  prac¬ 
tical  instruction  for  their  communi¬ 
ties  and  congregations.  It  was  in¬ 
tended  to  make  this  an  annual  fea¬ 
ture  of  modern  missionary  work.  The 
new  sugar  plantation,  out  of  profits  in 
1920,  paid  all  the  expenses  of  evan¬ 
gelistic  and  educational  work,  over 
$8,000.  Needless  to  say,  it  can  make 
no  such  showing  at  the  present  price 
of  sugar. 

In  East  Africa  lies  our  greatest 
equipment.  With  immense  ti’acts  of 
land  granted  by  the  Government  of 
about  60,000  acres  in  extent,  our  mis¬ 
sion  farms  include  1,500  acres  under 
cultivation.  A  trained  agriculturist, 
Mj*.  Alvord,  has  leaiaied  the  language, 
and  is  beginning  his  work  of  direc¬ 
tion.  All  the  boys  and  girls  are 
trained  in  lines  that  uplift  living 
standai’ds. 

In  West  Africa  the  annual  report 
informs  us  that  the  boys  and  girls  in 
one  boarding  school  cost  the  mission 
less  than  a  dollar  and  a  half  per  year 
because  agriculture  meets  the  bills. 
.The  books,  slates  and  supplies  come 
from  the  orange  and  pineapple  plan¬ 
tation.  The  cost  of  the  clothing  of 
the  children  is  met  from  the  cotton 
plantation,  and  the  food  is  raised  in 


the  sweet  potato  and  corn  fields. 

The  native  jmstors  receive  an  infini¬ 
tesimal  wage,  because  they  make  their 
own  living  on  their  plots  of  land,  and 
the  new  converts  help  the  preacher  to 
plow  and  plant  and  harvest.  This  is 
what  makes  possible  a  ten  dollar  a 
year  wage  for  our  native  workers  in 
that  region. 

If — For  great  Africa, with  its  virgin 
soil  and  untrained  people,  we  should 
like  to  provide  two  more  industrial 
missionaries.  If  the  $5,000,000  is 
raised,  this  additional  service  can  be 
considered.  It  will  cost  per  vear 
$6,000. 

In  India 

The  Marathi  Mission  has  long 
stressed  industrial  training.  In  the 
Madura  Mission,  John  X.  Miller’s 
great  school  at  Pasumalai  includes 
practical  departments  for  its  eight 
hundred  boys,  aiding  in  self-help, 
and  giving  training  in  trades  crafts. 
A  conditional  $10,000  legacy  can  be 
claimed  as  soon  as  we  can  build  a  new 
building  for  this  great  school. 
The  Board  is  sending  out  a  missionary 
who  will  study  village  industrial  life 
and  aid  the  peo])le  in  keeping  out  of 
debt  to  the  ra])acious  land-owners 
aud  in  introducing  nioi-e  remunei’a- 
tive  methods  aud  crafts. 

In  Turkey 

An  Agricult in*al  Department  and 
large  farms  are  desirable  in  couuec- 
tioii  with  every  boai'ding  scliool  aud 
college.  It  liel])s  to  solve  tlie  prob¬ 
lem  of  self-help,  as  in  the  Moody 
School  at  Noi'thfield  and  Mount  Iler- 
mon  in  this  country,  and  it  gives  the 
teaching  needed  for  the  future  farmer 
and  artisan. 

The  American  Board,  which  origi¬ 
nated  this  line  of  work,  in  recent 
years  has  hung  back  as  compared 
with  other  denominations  from  lack 
of  funds.  When  the  churches  will  raise 
the  $5,000,000  budget,  we  shall 
be  able  to  begin  an  advance 
in  industrial  and  agricultui’al  devel¬ 
opment. 


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TWELVE  OF  THE  TWO  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY-FIVE 

MEN  MISSIONARIES 


Kev.  John  Howland, 
D.D.,  Mexico,  1882 

President  and  Professor 
ill  Union  Theological 
Seminary,  Mexico  City, 
a  joint  undertaking  of 
all  the  mission  hoards 
and  coniniunions  in  that 
land. 


Kev.  George  A.  Wil¬ 
der,  D.D.,  South 
Africa,  1880 

Born  in  the  land,  of  mis¬ 
sionary  iiarentage,  one 
of  the  prospectors  and 
founders  of  the  Rhodesia 
Branch,  who  has  shared 
in  all  its  growth. 


Mr.  Leeds  Gulick, 
Japan,  1921 

Of  the  third  generation 
of  a  famous  missionary 
family,  son  of  Dr.  Syd¬ 
ney  Gulick,  he  returns 
to  the  land  where  he 
was  horn,  specially 
traineil  to  work  with 
hoys  on  mission  fields. 


Kev.  John  S.  Porter, 
Czechoslovak  Mis¬ 
sion,  1891 

The  Board’s  only  mis¬ 
sionary  in  this  new  re- 
puhlic  who  faces  oppor¬ 
tunities  undreaipt  of  be¬ 
fore  tlie  war. 


Kev.  Henry  C.  Mc- 
Dowell,  West 
Africa,  1919 

Winning  his  spurs  as  the 
first  missionary  to  be 
supported  hy  the  Negro 
Congregational  churches 
in  southern  United 
States  as  their  repre¬ 
sentative  in  Africa. 


Dr.  Phillips  F,  Greene, 
Turkey,  1921 

Of  the  third  generation 
of  a  well-known  mission¬ 
ary  family  in  Turkey, 
he  goes  to  devote  him¬ 
self  to  the  reconstruc¬ 
tion  of  mission  work  in 
the  land  of  Ins  hirth. 


Kev.  Edward  Fair- 
bank,  Marathi,  1883 

Born  in  India,  of  mis¬ 
sionary  parentage,  is  in 
charge  of  a  district  in 
which  entire  groups  and 
communities  are  turning 
to  Christianity. 


Kev.  John  J.  Ban- 
ninga,  D.D.,  Madura 
Mission,  1901 

Principal  of  Pasumalai 
Seminary  from  which  go 
forth  pastors  and  evan¬ 
gelists  through  South 
India  and  Ceylon. 


Rev.  Harry  S.  Martin, 
North  China,  1910 

Principal  of  Charles  E. 
Jefferson  Academy,  near 
Peking,  which  draws  its 
students  from  all  centers 
of  the  North  China  Mis¬ 
sion  to  fit  them  for 
Peking  Universit.v  or  to 
preiiare  them  directly 
for  life  work. 


Rev.  Willard  L.  Beard, 
D.D.,  Foochow,  1894 

Head  of  Foochow  Col¬ 
lege,  graduating  its  stu¬ 
dents  to  Fukien  Univer¬ 
sity  or  qualifying  them 
directly  for  life  work, 
an  invaluable  aid  to  the 
development  of  churches 
and  communities  con¬ 
nected  wdth  the  Mission. 


Kev.  James  K.  Lyman, 
Turkey,  1913 

A  typical  missionary 
hero  of  the  war  years  in 
Turkey.  Mr.  Lyman’s 
experience  makes  a  mar¬ 
velous  stoi-y  of  trying 
responsihilities  met  and 
effectually  handled. 


Mr.  Charles  H.  Riggs, 
Shaowu,  1916 

He  combines  his  mis¬ 
sionary  ancestry  and 
specialized  college  train¬ 
ing  in  going  as  agricul¬ 
tural  missionary  to  help 
solve  the  problem  of  the 
poor  farmers  in  a  hill 
country  of  Cliina. 


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EDUCATIONAL  MISSIONS 

**Goy  Teach  All  Nations** 


22  Seminaries  and  Training  Schools 

Number  of 

Students.  .  .  . 

.  .  657 

9  Colleges  (5  in  Turkey  not  included) 

U  it 

a 

.  .  2,000 

56  Boarding  and  High  Schools 

«  « 

a 

.  .  6,822 

1167  Elementary  Schools 

((  (( 

(( 

.  .52,345 

Total  Schools,  1,254 

Total  under 

instruction . 

.  .61,824 

’HAT  your  own  school 
days  meant  to  you  in 
broadened  outlook,  lasting 
friendships,  preparation  for  life 
service,  ideals,  and  golden  days, 
these  mission  schools  and  colleges 
mean  to  their  students — and  more  be¬ 
cause  they  have  less.  What  Amherst, 
Williams,  Carleton  and  Pomona  have 
meant  to  the  Congregational  churches 
of  America,  these  colleges  mean  to  the 
churches  on  the  foreign  field — and 
more,  because  they  are  their  sole  de¬ 
pendence  for  an  educated  ministry. 
What  Christian  education  has  meant 
to  America,  these  schools  mean  to  a 
dozen  lands.  They  are  the  “  red 
schoolhouse  beside  the  church,”  and 
they  mean  more  because  they  are  not 
the  outgrowth  of  a  Christian  environ¬ 
ment  but  a  vital  leaven  in  non-Chris¬ 
tian  surroundings. 

1.  Magnitude  and  Economy.  The 
American  Board  shares  directly  in  the 
education  of  60,000  children  and 

young  people  in  14 
countries  and  over 
1,200  schools. 
There  are  theolog¬ 
ical  seminaries  and 
kinder  gartens, 
high  schools,  col¬ 
leges  and  normal 
schools.  Industry 
and  commerce,  ag¬ 
riculture  and  engi¬ 
neering,  music  and 
art  and  domestic 
science,  each  have 
their  place.  If  the 
Board  were  to  de¬ 
vote  its  entire  in¬ 
come  to  the  sup¬ 


Bev.  Alexander  Mac- 
Lachlan,  D.  D. 

President  of  Interna¬ 
tional  College  at 
Smyrna,  one  of  our 
great  educationalists. 
His  college  is  attract¬ 
ing  Moslem  students 
and  converting  them, 
too. 


port  of  these  schools,  it  would  have  on 
an  average  about  $150  per  month  of 
the  school  year  to  spend  on  the  teach¬ 
ers,  equipment  and  upkeep  of  each 
school.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the 
Board  does  not  pay  aU  the  expenses. 
Tuitions,  special  gifts,  income  from  in¬ 
vested  funds,  and  in  some  instances, 
government  grants  carry  a  part  of  the 
load.  But  the  type  of  economy  prac¬ 
ticed  by  the  Board  is  evident  when 
we  recall  that  it  saves  enough  from 
this  $150  a  month  to  support  over  200 
American  missionary  homes  in  110 
centres  of  missionary  residence  scat¬ 
tered  over  the  world,  to  have  a  share 
in  dispensary  and  hospital  work  of 
45  American  medical  missionaries, 
many  of  them  isolated,  and  in  addi¬ 
tion  an  interest  in  600  native 
churches,  and  then  conducts  this  far- 
flung  educational  work,  including 
colleges  and  theological  seminaries,  on 


what  is  left. 

2.  STIiATEGV. 
church  learned  tlic 
strategy  of  tlu' 
school  —  save  tbe 
children  and  you 
save  the  nation.  It 
is  as  true  on  the 
mission  field  as  in 
America.  The  Ro¬ 
man  Catholics  have 
made  most  effec¬ 
tive  use  of  this 
policy. 

The  school  has  a 
further  strategic 
missionary  service 
in  the  production 
of  trained  Chris¬ 
tian  leaders 


Centuries  ago  the 


Rev.  Williiim  M.  Zum- 
bro,  D.  D. 

President  of  tlie  Amer¬ 
ican  College,  Madura, 
India,  an  institution 
of  high  grade,  drawing 
students  of  all  castes 
and  uniting  them  in  a 
community  based  on 
Christian  Ideals. 


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A.  M.  302 


through  Christian  higher  education. 
American  Protestants  have  been  fore¬ 
most  in  applying  this  policy.  The  re¬ 
sults  are  seen  in  the  work  of  the  Amer¬ 
ican  Board  all  around  the  world.  In 
America  we  hear  only  of  men  who 
have  attained  eminence  in  our  West¬ 
ern  civilization  and  know  nothing  of 
liundreds  who  are  molding  communi¬ 
ties  and  nations  in  other  environments 
and  who  are  the  product  of  mission- 
arv  education.  To  one  who  knows 
the  evangelical  movement  in  Turkey, 
the  names  Bezjian,  Djejizian,  Krikor- 
ian,  Levon ian,  Hagopian,  Papazian, 
Sivaslian,  and  a  score  of  others  are 
synonyms  for  leadership,  names  of 
men  who  are  products  of  American 
Board  educational  work.  The  same 
is  true  of  President  Ebina  of  Japan, 
of  Pastor  Li  and  the  Chuan  Brothers 
of  China,  of  Tilak  and  Santiagu  of 
India,  of  Dube  of  Africa,  and  of  lit- 
erallv  hundreds  of  other  native  lead- 
ers.  In  certain  countries  it  is  hard 
to  name  any  leaders  who  do  not  con¬ 
fess  marked  influence  from  the  mis- 

sionarv  educational  movement. 

«■ 

Beyond  saving  the  children  and 
training  leaders,  there  is  a  still  high¬ 
er  strategy  in  missionary  education, 
the  preparation  of  the  native  churches 
to  undertake  themselves  the  training 
of  their  own  children  and  the  prepar¬ 
ation  of  their  own  leaders.  Of  this 
policy  the  Central  Turkey  Mission 
with  its  Cilicia  Evangelical  Union,  its 
graded  native  school  system  of  eleven 
years,  its  Central  Turkey  College  and 
Marash  Theological  Seminary,  has 
furnished  a  marked  demonstration. 

3.  Spiritual  Efficiency.  Spiritu¬ 
al  results  in  education  depend  on  the 
spirit  of  those  who  control  the 
schools.  Unquestionably  the  school 
can  be  made  an  unparalleled  instru¬ 
ment  of  spiritual  achievement.  Mis¬ 
sion  educational  institutions  are  con¬ 
fessed  oil  all  hands  to  bo  unique  be- 
('anso  ol‘  theii*  intlnonoo  on  the  foiana- 
lion  of  cliai-aotor.  There  are  mission 
schools,  like  the  Boys’  Academy  at 
Shaowu,  China,  with  the  record  that 
not  a.  student  has  presented  himself 


for  graduation  who  had  not  become 
a  Christian.  Students  are  under  the 
daily  pressure  of  Christian  atmos¬ 
phere.  In  the  majority  of  cases  they 
receive  in  school  their  strongest  im¬ 
pulses  toward  Christ.  Spiritual  re¬ 
sults  are  a  definite  part  of  the  objec¬ 
tive  of  the  educational  missionary,  not 
statistical  or  in  the  nature  of  addi¬ 
tions  to  church  membership,  but  obe¬ 
dient  opening  of  the  life  to  the  influ¬ 
ence  of  Christ  and  deep  abiding  spir¬ 
itual  change.  The  spiritual  leaders 
who  have  gone  forth  from  American 
Board  institutions  are  proof  of  their 
spiritual  efficiency. 

The  Board  undoubtedly  could  re¬ 
duce  its  budget  by  cutting  off  this  ed¬ 
ucational  work,  but  it  would  lose 
thereby  also  its  fruits  which  are  out  of 
all  proportion  to  the  expenditure.  In 
Aintab,  Turkey,  people  beg  for  $2,000 
to  make  possible  the  continuance  of 
common  and  high  school  for  500  boys 
and  girls.  On  the  various  fields  of 
the  Board  on  the  average  a  year  of 
schooling  for  a  boy  or  girl  can  be  se¬ 
cured  by  a  five-dollar  bill.  There  are 
colleges  where  the  lack  of  $10  keeps 
young  men  from  a  college  training. 
In  some  places  a  village  school  for  50 
pupils  can  be  housed  permanently  for 
$200.  $500  will  cover  the  margin  of 
annual  deficit  of — a  college !  $2,000 
will  open  a  new  department. 

With  our  high  commitments  to  the 
world-wide  extension  of  the  Kingdom 
of  our  Saviour  Christ,  can  the  Congre¬ 
gational  churches  afford  to  consider 
the  saving  of  the  money  which  they 
have  been  expending  here  ?  Can  they 
withhold  that  needed  for  advance? 

If — A  few  of  the  educational  needs 
presented  in  former  Surveys  could 
be  met  if  the  $1,275,000  for  the  Amer¬ 
ican  Board  should  be  secured  in  fulL 
As  samples  of  possibilities,  we  men¬ 
tion  six  village  scliools  in  Ceylon,  total 
eost  $3,000;  oui*  share  of  the  Banga¬ 
lore  Union  Seminary  in  India,  $3,000; 
our  share  of  tlie  ('ost  of  literature  is- 
,sued  interdenominationally,  $4,000; 
and  toward  our  share  for  the  all-im¬ 
portant  union  universities,  $10,000. 


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EVANGELISTIC  MISSIONS 

There* s  a  Story  to  Tell  to  the  Nations.** 


WHAT  FIGURES  SHOW 


Ordained  Missionaries .  181 

Churches  .  671 

Preaching  Places . 1,997 


WHAT  FIGURES  SHOW 


Communicants  .  80,343 

Added  last  year .  5,284 


Catecumens  and  Adherents.  194,417 


^■TllE  people  of  the  Congregational 
/ 1  churches  should  understand 

that  the  Gospel  is  still  Good 

News  on  the  fields  of  the  American 
Board.  Of  the  75,000,000  dependent 
upon  us  for  light,  the  vast  majority 
are  as  ignorant  of  the  Christian  mes¬ 
sage  of  love  and  goodwill  as  though 
that  message  had  never  been  given. 

/  The  chief  im¬ 

pression  we  desire 
to  convey  in  this 
Survey  is  of  a  suc- 
c  e  s  s  f  u  1 ,  God- 
blessed,  evangelis¬ 
tic  advance.  Evan¬ 
gelism  is  the  chief 
aim  of  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Board.  This 
the  heart,  and 


IS 

center  of  our  work. 
It  should  be  under¬ 
stood,  too,  that  the 
situation  has  ma¬ 
terially  changed  in 
.  recent  years.  No 
longer  is  it  the  problem  to  make 
here  and  there  an  occasional  convert 
from  heathenism ;  the  problem  on 
many  fields  is  to  take  care  of  the  large 
number  who  are  asking  for  baptism.  It 
is  the  problem  of  huge  success.  Under 
such  conditions  we  simply  must  have 
the  funds  to  provide  sufficient  evan¬ 
gelists  and  teachers.  We  think  if  the 
Congregational  churches  know  this 
fact  when  they  canvass  for  funds,  it 
will  make  a  vast  dilference  in  their 
response. 

White  Harvests  Abioad 

We  hesitate  to  name  particular 
fields  where  evangelistic  opportuni¬ 


Kev.  Watts  O.  I*ye 

Of  China,  a  graduate 
of  Carlton  and  (tlier- 
!in.  wlio  has  inaiigu- 
ratefl  a  remarkable 
evangelistic  advance 
In  Shansi  and  Shensi. 


ties  are  found,  hecause  an  advance  in 
this  department  is  general  through¬ 
out  our  19  missions.  The  Spirit  of 
God  is  moving  upon  the  people  of 
every  land  and  our  missionaries 
everywhere  are  eager  to  seize  the 
opportunity.  If  we  do  not  cite 
Japan,  Mexico,  Spain,  Czechoslo¬ 
vakia,  the  Balkans,  and  Micronesia, 
it  is  not  because 
there  are  no  stories 
to  tell.  From  near¬ 
ly  every  mission 
come  reports  of 
scores  of  native 
preachers  being 
brought  together 
f  0  r  evangelistic 
training,  in  order 
to  meet  the  new 
situation.  Evei*y 
field  seems  white 
to  the  harvest.  But 
we  emphasize  six 
outstanding  oppor¬ 
tunities. 

Africa 

Clij’istiaiiity  is  on  the  march  today 
in  our  West  Afi’ica  (Angola)  field. 
Tlie  Ovimbundu  tribe,  of  500,000,  can 
be  Christianized  beyond  any  doubt, 
if  we  in  America  say  so.  The  Dondi 
Ti‘aining  Institute,  supported  by  the 
Canadian  Congregational ists,  is  in  a 
position  at  last  to  furnish  requisite 
preachers  and  teachers.  Ali'cady  the 
returns  are  largi'.  Idieri^  is  no  rea¬ 
son  wliy  we  slioiild  not  have  in  a  fi'w 
yeai's  as  wonderful  results  in  this 
mission  as  the  Presbyterians  are  hav¬ 
ing  in  the  (himei'oon  north  of  us. 

If — We  venture  to  ho]ie  that  soon  the 


Kev.  Hilton  I’edlcy, 
I). I). 

Field  Secrelary  of  our 
.lai)au  Mission,  wlio 
insists  that  Jaiiaii  is 
a  riine  tield  for  evan¬ 
gelism,  especially  in 
resitect  to  the  iieoi)le 
in  tlie  villages. 


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A.  M.  304 


$5,000,000  will  be  raised,  and  if  it  is, 
we  may  ask  the  Prudential  Committee 
whether  $5,000  coidd  not  be  had  for 
reaping  in  this  ripe  field. 

Interesting  things  are  happening 
at  Johannesburg,  where  Dr.  P.  B. 
Bridgman  and  Rev.  Ray  Phillips  are 
at  work.  Phillips,  backed  by  the  mine 
owners,  is  conducting  the  finest  piece 
of  social  service  work  we  have  heard 
of.  With  movies,  sports  and  social 
clubs  he  is  reaching  tens  of  thousands 
and  making  Bridgman’s  more  strictly 
evangelistic  work  a  remarkable  suc¬ 
cess-.  Some  of  Bridgman’s  con¬ 
verts  returned  to  their  homes  near  In- 
hambane,  Portugese  East  Africa,  and 
immediately  began  witnessing  for 
Christ.  God  blessed  their  labors,  and 
now  they  insist  they  must  have  a  mis¬ 
sionary  to  take  charge  of  the  rapidly 
expanding  work.  Bridgman  has  just 
visited  this  field  and  was  surprised 
to  find  350  converts  had  been  made 
from  paganism,  these  being  gathered 
into  26  widely  separated  groups.  750,- 
000  pagans  remain.  Come  over  and 
help  us,  ’  ’  say  these  earnest  young  Af¬ 
ricans. 

If — But  when  the  apportionment 
is  paid  in  full,  it  is  likely  that  $3,000 
will  be  available  for  answering  this 
Macedonian  cry.  Shall  we  say  if  or 
when? 

The  Philippines 

The  only  mission  of  the  Board  un¬ 
der  “the  flag.”  The  Philippine  Gov¬ 
ernment  and  the  mission  boards  are 
working  in  hearty  sympathy.  The 
scheme  of  co-operation  between  boards 
assigns  the  island  of  Mindanao  (pop¬ 
ulation  1,000,000)  as  our  field.  There 
are  three  great  openings,  the  Filipinos 
along  the  coast,  the  wild  tribes  in  the 
interior  and  the  Mohammedan  Moros 
in  the  peninsula  which  stretches 
westward.  Our  missionaries  can 
•  hardly  make  up  their  minds  as  to 
which  opening  is  the  best.  They  want 
us  to  enter  them  all.  And  why  should 
we  not?  Are  not  the  Congregational- 
ists  capable  of  meeting  their  responsi¬ 
bility  among  the  denominations  ?  Our 
Davao  Station,  with  its  church  and 


hospital,  is  centering  upon  a  pagan 
tribe,  the  Bagobos,  with  good  results. 
On  the  North  Coast  we  have  begun  a 
most  promising  work  among  the  Fil¬ 
ipinos,  who  are  clamoring  for  our  kind 
of  Christianity.  “  The  Moros,”  Dr. 
Frank  Laubach  says,  “  offer  the 
greatest  chance  to  reach  a  Moslem 
people  which  has  come  to  the  Church 
in  a  thousand  years.”  For  them  we 
are  doing  nothing. 

When — When  the  gap  between 
receipts  and  expenditures  is  bridged, 
and  when  the  $200,000  additional  is 
available,  we  hope  for  $5,000  with 
which  to  evangelize  this  eager  people. 

India 

India  is  the  home  of  the  “  mass 
movements.”  Better  than  any  other 
land  it  illustrates  the  new  conditions 
of  evangelistic  work.  In  the  North, 
where  the  Methodist  and  Presbyteri¬ 
an  Boards  are  working,  we  are  hear¬ 
ing  extraordinary  things — ^new  con¬ 
verts  by  the  tens  of  thousands  each 
year  waiting  for  baptism,  village  after 
village  coming  bodily  to  Christianity. 
In  our  own  missions,  the  Marathi  in 
West  India  and  the  Madura  in  South 
India,  we  cannot  as  yet  equal  these 
stories ;  but  similar  forces  are  at  work 
and  we  may  have  a  mass  movement  at 
any  time.  Our  ehief  new  opportunity 
is  with  the  ancient  Robber  Castes, 
which  the  Government  is  settling  upon 
the  land  and  offering  to  the  Board  as 
an  exclusive  field  in  education  and 
evangelism.  These  alert  and  ambi¬ 
tious  people,  to  the  number  of  about 
80,000,  may  be  brought  to  Christiani¬ 
ty  by  an  almost  inevitable  process  if 
we  are  situated  to  take  hold.  The 
Government  and  the  caste  people  join 
in  the  request  for  our  help.  The  In¬ 
dia  missionaries  say  this  is  the  great¬ 
est  chance  we  have  had  in  100  years. 
We  need  only  to  appoint  two  or  three 
new  missionaries,  as  the  Government 
provides  land,  buildings,  and  equip¬ 
ment.  One  colony  we  have  assumed 
at  Sholapur;  those  in  the  south  'we 
cannot  attempt  in  the  present  finan¬ 
cial  situation. 


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S49 


When — It  seems  that  we  cannot 
long  withhold  the  $4,000  needed  for 
this  critical  service. 

China 

How  it  happens  that  the  American 
Board  in  China  occupies  fields  of 
such  rare  oportunity  for  evangelistic 
results  we  cannot  say.  Some  have 
felt  that  hitherto  we  have  neglected 
evangelism  in  favor  of  educational 
missions.  Perhaps  we  do  not  deserve 
the  present  rich  harvests ;  in  any 
event  the  oportunity  is  ours  and  God 
holds  us  to  strict  accountability. 

Providentially,  six  years  ago  when 
the  Board  was  in  financial  straits,  the 
thought  came  to  a  New  England  busi¬ 
ness  man  that  he  personally  might  in¬ 
stitute  an  evangelistic  advance  in 
China.  He  offered  $1,000  a  year  for 
ten  years.  The  field  chosen  was  the 
northern  half  of  Shensi,  where  no 
mission  work  had  been  done,  and 
where  the  population  of  some  8,000,- 
000  were  known  to  be  peculiarly 
ready  for  the  message.  Rev.  Watts  0. 
Pye  being  put  in  charge,  surveyed 
the  territory,  selected  ten  Chinese 
pastors  and  placed  them  in  five 
walled  cities.  The  response  was  as¬ 
tonishing,  especially  on  the  part  of 
magistrates  and  prominent  people. 
After  six  years  we  find  the  following 
results :  Churches  founded  26 ;  con¬ 
verts  made  3,000 ;  young  men  offering 
themselves  for  the  ministry  27 ;  pas¬ 
tors  now  being  utilized  15.  A  con¬ 
spicuous  feature  is  the  nearing  of  self- 
support  on  the  part  of  several 
churches.  We  find  a  combination  of 
three  things  in  this  experiment :  a 
people  ready  for  the  Gospel,  a  mis¬ 
sionary  capable  of  handling  the  situ¬ 
ation,  a  man  at  home  ready  to  put  up 
the  cash.  That  combination  might 
exist  in  almost  any  field. 

In  the  capital  province  of  Chihli 
is  our  Paotingfu  field  ;  in  the  Paoting- 
fu  field  are  twenty  counties  contain¬ 
ing  about  5,000,000  people ;  in  one 
of  these  counties  (Tingchow),  through 
the  generosity  of  a  member  of  the 
Prudential  Committee,  we  were  able 


to  place  two  evangelists.  Last  year 
they  made  1,200  converts.  We  would 
like  to  place  two  such  men  in  the 
other  counties  where  similar  results 
might  be  obtained.  The  missionaries 
affirm  we  can  have  a  church  of  10,000 
members  in  this  region  in  five  years 
if  they  are  allowed  to  man  the  field. 

Oii  the  Min  River,  in  China,  three 
villages  have  recently  cast  away  their 
idols  and  are  urging  the  American 
Board  to  send  them  teachers.  In  an¬ 
other  village,  where  a  Christian  ser¬ 
vice  had  never  been  held,  one  of  our 
missionaries  arrived  late  one  night 
when  the  people  had  retired.  The 
leading  men  at  once  had  the  town 
aroused  and  the  largest  building  was 
soon  filled  Avith  an  eager  throng,  lis¬ 
tening  to  “  the  doctrine.”  Imagine 
the  sorrow,  the  tragedy,  of  refusing 
such  eager  folk  as  these ! 

If — If  such  heart  hunger  appeals  to 
the  Congregational  people  of  America 
sufficiently  to  provide  the  apportion¬ 
ment,  it  Avill  be  possible  to  listen  to 
the  call  for  a  single  additional  mis¬ 
sionary  for  this  part  of  China — ap¬ 
proximate  cost,  $3,000. 

Turkey 

It  would  be  a  great  mistake  to  pass 
by  Turkey  on  the  assumption  that  the 
chaotic  political  and  economic  con¬ 
ditions  preclude  effective  mission 
work.  The  challenge  of  Turkey  in 
some  respects  is  the  challenge  of  trag¬ 
edy  rather  than  of  success ;  we  are 
challenged  to  sacrificial  loyalty  and 
steadfastness  there  today  just  as  Ave 
Avere  in  China  tAventy-one  years  ago. 

But  there  is  present  opportunity 
even  in  Turkey.  The  AA^ay  is  opening 
at  last  for  us  to  reach  the  Moslems 
Avith  the  direct  appeal  of  the  Gospel. 
Converts  from  Islam  are  being  made 
at  Smyrna,  Marash  and  elseAAffiere. 
Moslem  youth  are  crowding  our 
schools.  We  cannot  present  here 
the  complicated  set  of  causes  and 
conditions  which  have  brought 
this  about,  but  Congregationalists 
should  realize  that  it  is  a  glorious 
fact,  one  of  the  strange  outcomes  of 
the  war. 


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A, M.  306 


Danjo  Sbina 


REPRESENTATIVE 
LEADERS  IN 
MISSION  LANDS 


Chaiigr  Po  liing: 


Memhei-  tlie  I'iinioii.-! 
Kumamoto  Baud,  from 
wbicli  came  founders 
and  leaders  of  Kumiai 
churches ;  an  eminent 
preacher  at  Japan’s 
capital ;  now  President 
of  the  Doshisha  Univer¬ 
sity  at  Kyoto,  founded 
Neesima. 


Bhaskarao  llivale 

Of  the  third  generation 
of  Indian  Christians ; 
product  of  Marathi  mis¬ 
sion  schools;  six  years’ 
exi^erience  as  teacher ; 
graduate  of  Andover 
Seminary  ;  now  retnrned 
to  work  with  the  mis¬ 
sion  for  his  people. 


Li  Pen  Yuan 

First  Chinese  pastor  of  the 
mother  church  in  Peking  com¬ 
pound  ;  a  preacher  of  rare 
power,  known  and  revered  all 
over  the  North  China  mission. 
First  Chinese  General  Secretary 
of  the  newly  formed  Council. 
His  death  in  the  summer  of 
1!»21  was  due  to  his-  unsparing 
devotion. 


Sometime  government 
supervisor  of  education 
in  Tientsin.  Founder 
and  inspiring  head  of 
the  model  Boys’  School 
of  China.  Zealous  mem¬ 
ber  of  Independent  Con¬ 
gregational  Church  of 
Tientsin. 


Abraham  Haroutunian 

Pastor  and  leader  in 
the  evangelistic  and 
educational  work  of  the 
Cilicia  Evangelical 
Union.  Graduate  of 
Central  Turkey  College. 
Aintab  (1899),  and  of 
IMarash  Theological  Sem¬ 
inary.  His  life  has 
been  remarkable  for 
Providential  deliver¬ 
ances  during  massacres, 
deportations  and  out¬ 
breaks. 


A. M,  307 


THE  AMERICAN  BOARD 


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MISSIONARY  RECRUITS 


Ordained  Men 

Industrial  Superintendents 

Women  Evangelists 

Agriculturists 

Teachers  of  All  Kinds 

Architects 

Doctors 

Athletic  Directors 

Nurses 

Business  Agents 

Writers 

Stenographers 

HIS  Survey  calls  not  only  for 
money  but  for  men.  No  factor 
is  of  so  great  importance  to  the 
success  of  the  missionary  enterprise 
as  new  missionaries  of  calibre  and 
consecration,  to  carry  through  the 
undertakings  which  an  awakened 
Orient  demands.  It  requires  about  50 
new  workers  each  year. 

The  greatest  contribution  a  church 
can  make  to  the  extension  of  Christi¬ 
anity  is  to  set  apart  one  or  more  of  its 
own  members  to  the  cause,  after  prop¬ 
er  training  has  been  made  possible. 
Such  an  act-  will  enrich  the  life  of  the 
church  immeasurably.  Have  you 

t/  «/ 

ever  known  a  church  which  sent  out 
a  foreign  missionary  which  was  not 
proud  of  the  fact?  A  few  montlis 
ago  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Shelburne,  Massachusetts,  celebrated 
its  One  Hundred  Fiftieth  Anniver¬ 
sary.  This  church  worships  in  a  lit¬ 
tle  white  meeting-house  on  a  steep 
hillside,  away  from  the  railroad.  It 
is  a  typical  New  England  country 
chui'ch  which  has  been  depleted  by 
colonization  and  steady  withdrawals. 
Yet  it  maintains  a  vigorous  mission¬ 
ary  life.  In  the  historical  statement 
the  fact  was  brought  out  that  it  was 
from  this  church  that  Pliny  Piske 
went  out  to  Turkey  in  1819,  being  the 
first  missionary  to  the  Near  East,  also 
his  niece,  Fidelia  Fiske,‘some  years 
later,  who  being  sent  to  Persia,  estab- 
lislied  the  first  girls’  school  in  Ihe 
Neai*  East,  llie  famous  ITiamiiah  Sem¬ 
inary. 

d’lie  United  (-linrcli  of  New  Haven, 
on  the  Creen,  is  fajuons  in  many 
ways,  but  in  none  moi*e  than  for  its 
ja^cord  on  the  foreign  field.  On  its 


Foreign  Mission  Service  Flag  it  has 
23  stars,  representing  that  number  of 
members  who  have  gone  out  under 
the  American  Board.  Among  the 
names  are  Hiram  Bingham,  Robert  A. 
Hume,  William  Zumbro. 

The  Church  in  Faribault,  Minne¬ 
sota,  has  given  to  the  Board  the  Pye 
brothers.  Rev.  Watts  0.  Pve  of 
China,  and  Rev.  Ernest  Pye  of  Tur¬ 
key,  and  it  rejoices  today  in  having 
such  noble  representatives  on  the  fir¬ 
ing  line. 

As  you  read  this  Survey,  you  will 
note  how  the  Avork  has  been  broad¬ 
ened  these  recent  years.  Not  only  do 
we  appoint  ordained  men,  physicians 
and  teachers,  but  useful  people  of  all 

soi’ts.  Each  vmar  avc  need  fiYe  or  six 

< 

men  fresh  from  college,  as  term  work¬ 
ers,  for  thi'ee  or  five  years,  to  teach 
English  in  our  higher  institutions 
and  to  work  among  students. 

Last  year  the  Boai-d  sent  out  51 
new  recruits,  covering  iieaidy  all  lines 
of  woi’k.  We  are  glad  to  I’eport  that 
the  outlook  for  candidates  is  bettm* 
than  for  many  years.  It  is  being 
demonstrated  that  our  young  people 
do  not  lack  the  spirit  of  heroism  and 
self-sacrifice,  Avhen  they  knoAV  the 
world  needs  them. 

When  and  If — the  conse¬ 
crated  money  conies,  Ave  shall  hope  for 
tAvo  Avise,  sti’ong,  devoted  missionaries 
foi*  the  Philii)pin(‘s  and  for  .$7,000 
above'  other  pi'essing  (-alls,  but  this 
Avill  mid  to  the  nnililx'i'  of  missionai*y 
resideiHH's  n(‘('d(‘d.  3\‘n  of  tlu'se*  ai*e 

now  Avaiting.  Doubtless  $25,000  for 
five  of  them  could  be  found  if  only 
that  neAv  money  conies  forth. 


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A. M.  308 


RECAPITULATION 

THIS  SURVEY  SHOWS 

That  in  the  Pi-ovideiice  of  God  we  occupy  the  fields  of  greatest  respon¬ 
sibility  and  opportunity  in  all  the  world,  our  position  being  stra¬ 
tegic  beyond  that  of  any  other  foreign  board. 

That  God  is  calling  us  to  give  the  Gospel  to  ready  and  eager  nations,  our 
opportunity  in  evangelism  being  unprecedented. 

That  when  the  churches  raise  the  full  $5,000,000,  it  will  make  possible 
a  noteworthy  advance  in  every  Mission  and  in  every  department 
of  work. 

That  in  spite  of  the  splendid  advance  in  the  last  two  years,  the  con¬ 
tributions  from  the  churches  are  still  some  $200,000  per  year 
slioi’t  of  supporting  the  work  of  the  Board  even  on  the  present 
restricted  basis. 

That  it  was  through  an  extraordinary  outpouring  in  July  and  August 
of  personal  gifts,  in  response  to  its  urgent  appeals,  backed  by  the 
vote  of  the  National  Council,  that  the  Board  avoided  adding  a 
huge  deficit  to  the  terrifying  debt  of  last  year. 

That  two-thirds  of  the  old  deficit  still  remains  and  must  be  provided 
for  before  the  Board  can  enter  upon  its  new  opportunities. 

That  unless  the  present  gap  between  receipts  and  expenditures  is  closed 
and  the  debt  prevented,  retrenchment  of  a  drastic  nature  will  be 
required. 

That  to  maintain  the  work  at  the  present  level  (but  how  can  we  with¬ 
hold  an  advance?)  there  is  needed  an  increase  in  contributions 
from  the  churches  of  at  least  33%  over  those  of  1921. 

That  the  year  1922  will  shoAv  what  policy  the  churches  wish  the  Board 
to  pursue — retrench,  hold  on,  or  advance. 

That  unlimited  opportunities  of  widest  variety  for  the  investment  of 
large  sums  of  money,  where  the  dividends  in  redeemed  human  life 
and  regenerated  society  will  be  beyond  computing,  are  offered  by 
our  great  foreign  missionary  enterprise. 

That  in  the  realm  of  internationalism  and  Christian  statesmanship  this 
historic  Board,  if  properly  backed,  is  in  a  position  to  render  a 
service  of  supreme  importance  to  the  world. 

That  the  Congregational  people  have  never  failed  to  respond  to  the  call 
of  their  foreign  enterprise,  when  apprised  of  a  critical  situation 
and  given  a  chance  to  act.  Our  problem  is  to  get  such  facts  as 
these  presented  effectively  to  the  rank  and  file  of  our  members, 
especially  to  the  man  at  the  head  of  the  pew. 

That  now  is  the  time  to  make  the  facts  known,  and  to  urge  all  to  stand 
loyally  by  the  American  Board. 


THE  WOMAN’S  BOARDS 


TREASURIES 

The  three  Woman’s  Boards  have  treasuries  separate  from  that  of  the 
American  Board  and  the  general  board  assumes  no  financial  respon¬ 
sibility  for  their  work.  They  determine  their  own  budgets,  the  number 
of  missionaries  they  will  support,  and  the  amount  they  will  appropriate  foi’ 
the  work  under  their  care.  Without  the  money  paid  into  the  Wom^an’s  Board 
treasuries,  the  educational,  social,  medical  and  evangelistic  work  for  women 
and  children  in  American  Board  fields  would  in  great  measure  cease,  as  the 
latter  Board  makes  no  provision  for  this. 

NEEDS 

Circumstances  which  have  led  to  the  critical  financial  situation  of  the 
American  Board  have  affected  the  Woman’s  Boards  in  like  manner.  For  the 
past  three  years  expenses  have  increased  far  more  rapidly  than  income. 
With  no  hope  for  new  work,  with  all  possible  reduction  in  expense,  with 
building  projects  indefinitely  delayed,  each  Board  yet  faces  a  serious  deficit. 

COUNCIL 

During  the  last  year  the  three  Boards  have  formed  a  central  organiza¬ 
tion,  the  Council  of  Congregational  Woman^s  Foreign  Mission  Boards.  It  is 
advisory  only  but  will  promote  efficiency  by  co-ordinating  the  Avork  of  the 
Boards,  securing  uniform  policies  at  home  and  abroad,  avoiding  duplication 
and  confusion  on  the  field,  and  furnishing  a  medium  of  communication  foi‘ 
interdenominational  societies. 


WOMAN^S  BOARD  OF  MISSIONS 

14  Beacon  Street,  Boston 


Territory  at  Home 

The  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 
now  comprises  twenty-five  branches 
and  has  for  its  constituency  the 
women  and  children  of  about  2,300 
churches  in  the  Atlantic  States. 

Its  Goal 

The  purpose  as  stated  in  its  Char¬ 
ter  is  ‘‘  the  Christianizing,  education 
and  physical  relief  of  women  and 
children  in  foreign  lands,  in  co-opera¬ 
tion  with  the  American  Board.”  This 
purpose  is  being  slowly  realized 
through  the  primary  methods  of  evan¬ 
gelization  and  education,  modified 
and  expanded  in  Christian  social  ser¬ 
vice  and  medical  work. 

Its  Assets 

At  Home:  1,287  women’s  mission¬ 
ary  societies  with  approximately  48,- 


000  members;  1,081  Junior  organiza¬ 
tions  which  last  year  contributed  over 
$20,000 ;  546  Branch  officers  Avho  give 
freely  time,  strength  and  many  inci¬ 
dental  expenses  for  the  King’s  busi¬ 
ness. 

Life  and  Light,  a  monthly  maga¬ 
zine,  is  its  publication. 

Abroad  :  In  thirty-six  higher  . 

schools  and  300  or  more  day  schools, 
thousands  of  girls  in  training  for  use¬ 
ful  lives ;  250  Bible  women  who  touch 
with  hope  and  cheer,  at  the  most  con¬ 
servative  estimate,  25,000  women  each 
week ;  hospitals  and  dispensaries 
bringing  healing  every  year  to  at 
least  50,000  women  and  cliildren 
otherwise  hopeless  sufferers.  This 
work  is  directed  by  141  American 
missionaries  and  t(‘mporary  work('rs. 


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A.  M.  3J0 


Its  Liabilities 

HE  3^ear’s  budget  with  all  possi¬ 
ble  pruning  and  including 
nothing  for  buildings  called 
for  $330,577.  Toward  this  the  Board 
can  expect  from  other  sources  than 
apportionment  $25,000.  Its  share  of 
the  $5,000,000  is  $357,500.  Had  this 
latter  sum  been  raised,  it  would  have 
been  possible,  not  to.  consider  new 
woi’k,  but  to  make  a  somewhat  more 
adequate  provision  for  the  old  work. 
It  now  appears  that  the  Board  is 
Jikel^^  to  fall  short  of  its  $357,500 
from  the  churches  hy  from  $100,000 
to  $150,000,  and  in  si^ite  of  some  de¬ 
creases  in  expenses  to  close  the  year 
with  perhaps  $60,000  less  on  hand 
than  will  be  needed  for  1922  appro¬ 
priations.  Moreover,  in  spite  of  large 
demands  for  buildings,  onbv  a  small 
part  of  the  needs  have  been  met.  In¬ 
stead  of  twent^^-nine  new  workers 
called  for  to  fill  vacancies,  onl^"  six 


have  been  sent  during  1921.  The  mis¬ 
sionaries  have  been  urged  to  curtail  in 
every  possible  way.  Thus,  instead  of 
the  advance  anticipated,  their  long 
deferred  hopes  are  yet  unfulfilled. 

If  the  fear  of  a  shortage  at  the  end 
of  this  year  should  be  rebuked  by  re¬ 
ceipts  sufficient  to  start  1922  without 
a  deficit,  and  if  the  full  share  of  $5,- 
000,000  ($385,000  in  1922)  should  be 
received,  the  increase  over  this  year’s 
funds  could  then  be  used  for  the  fol¬ 
lowing  : 

Building  projects  under  way 
and  emergency  building 


grants .  $50,000 

New  workers  for  vacancies  and 
strengthening  staff,  with  out¬ 
fits  and  travel .  15,000 

More  liberal  provision  for  in¬ 
adequately  supported  work.  .  15,000 


Are  we  not  in  debt  to  our  self-sacri¬ 
ficing  missionaries  and  to  the  least 
of  these  ”  until  we  more  than  meet 
this  increase  ? 


BRIGHT  SPOTS  IN  THE  PICTURE 


A  New  Doctor  for  Ahmednagar 

May,  Dr.  HaiTiet  Clark,  a  phy- 
mI  sician  with  well-established 
i)ractice  and  splendid  equip¬ 
ment,  sailed  to  relieve  Dr.  Ruth 
P.  Hume  in  what  has  been  a  ‘‘  one 
woman  hospital  ”  for  six  years.  Dr. 
Clark  has  had  experience  in  Red 
Cross  work  in  Greece,  and  is  in  every 
way  fitted  to  assume  charge  of  the 
hospital  while  Dr.  Hume  comes  home 
foi*  her  overdue  furlough.  The  money 
needed  for  Dr.  Clark’s  maintenance 
has  still  to  be  provided. 


Philippine  Growth 

At  the  Jubilee  of  the  Woman’s 
Board  of  Missions  in  1917,  new  work 
was  assumed  in  the  Philippines  and 
new  money  pledged.  Because  of  this 
fact  two  sisters  are  toda^^  at  work — 
Misses  Anna  and  Florence  Fox. 
Anna,  an  evangelistic  missionary,  has 
opened  a  hostel  for  girls  where  she 
gives  Bible  training.  But  there  is  no 


equipment  and  no  funds  to  support- 
these  girls  who  must  earn  their  own 
way  and  study  the  Bible  after  their 
day’s  work  is  done.  Yet  Bible  teach¬ 
ers  are  sorely  needed.  Florence  Fox 
is  the  only  nurse  in  the  communit.y 
and  has  already  found  appealing 
\york  in  teaching  the  people  simple 
liygiene  and  sanitation. 

An  International  Center 

Amid  Turkey’s  tumult,  our  da}^ 
school  at  Gedik  Pasha,  Constantino¬ 
ple,  has  kept  on  its  busy  way.  In  the 
last  year  188  children  have  been  re¬ 
fused  admittance  because  there  was 
no  room  for  them.  The  270  in  at¬ 
tendance  are  packed  in  like  sardines. 
Children  of  all  nationalities  in  this 
cosmopolitan  cit}^  mingle  in  friendly 
fashion  and  attend  a  common  Sun¬ 
day  School  where  the  attendance  has 
reached  500.  Shall  this  Christian 

service  station  ”  be  forbidden  to 
grow  ? 


A.  M.3n 


THE  WOMAN^S  BOARDS 


S55 


CURRENTS  OF  INFLUENCE 


(In  the  midst  of  confusion  and  political  oppression  the  church,  in  the  persons 
of  preachers  and  teachers,  her  students  and  church  members,  is  setting  a  standard  of 
sympathy  and  service  never  before  undertaken  in  China.) 

China’s  Attitude  Japan’s  Seed  Sowers 


At  the  Wen  Shan  Girls’  School, 
Foochow,  a  new  gymnasium, 
the  gift  of  a  former  mission¬ 
ary,  has  been  opened.  The  Governor 
of  Fukien  Province,  with  imposing 
military  escort,  visited  tlie  school  and, 
in  ai^preciation  of  the  program 
offered,  made  a  gift  of  $100  for 
needed  apparatus. 

This  school  is  so  understaffed  that 
a  missionary  of  three  years’  experi¬ 
ence,  who  must  act  as  principal  next 
year,  recently  wrote:  ‘‘You  know  the 
extremity  of  our  High  School  this 
coming  fall.  Just  at  the  time  when 
education  for  girls  is  in  such  good 
repute  and  becoming  almost  popular, 
it  is  nothing  short  of  tragic  that  our 
school  shoidd  be  in  such  a  pathetic 
state.  I  shall  have  to  teach,  super¬ 
vise,  keep  unending  office  hours,  con¬ 
tinue  the  treasurer’s  work,  be  adviser 
for  all  the  school  societies,  whose 
name  is  legion  in  these  days  when  the 
student  motto  is  Service.  Of  course 
it  simply  cannot  be  done.”  The 
Hoard  has  sent  temporary  workers, 
but  no  permanent  appointee  for  this 
important  post.  A  missionary  of  the 
American  Board  says:  “  I  think 
girls’  educational  work  about  the  most 
important  work  tli(‘re  is  in  (hiina.  A 
well-educated  girl  makes  far  moi-e 
irn{)ressiou  than  a,  W(‘ll-(‘du('a,t(‘d  hoy.” 

Doors  Opened  by  Famine 

From  refugee  woiFrooms  in  North 
Cliina,  superintended  by  Woman’s 
Board  missionaries,  warmth  and  cheer 
have  gone  to  thousands  of  women.  At 
Lai  Shui  (Peking  field)  doors  of  fam¬ 
ine  have  opened  big  chances  to  reach 
the  children.  Eighty  girls  were  re¬ 
ceived  into  a  school  in  a  village  not 
before  reached.  Relief  for  the  starv¬ 
ing  bodies  has  been  poured  into  China 
by  American  friends.  What  is  to  be¬ 
come  of  hungry  minds  and  needy 
souls  ? 


A  Japanese  Inspector  of  Silk  Worm 
Culture  in  three  provinces  became  an 
ardent  believer  in  the  Christian  re¬ 
ligion  through  his  little  son,  a  kinder¬ 
garten  pupil  in  the  Imadegawa  Kin¬ 
dergarten,  Kyoto.  Having  lost  his 
wife  and  son,  he  has  become  a  “  tour¬ 
ing  missionary,”  organizing  Bible 
classes  and  preaching  as  he  makes  his 
business  rounds.  No  tabulation  of 
souls  thus  taught  can  be  made.  This 
is  one  instance  in  many  of  the  influ¬ 
ence  of  little  children  in  the  Mission 
Kindergartens.  Yet  a  Japanese  mis¬ 
sionary  says,  ‘  ‘  The  money  sent  by  the 
Woman’s  Board  does  not  cover  one- 
half  of  the  regnlar  expenses  of  the 
Kindergarten.” 

India’s  Hope 

In  Japan  everybody  smiles,  in 
China  many  smile,  in  India  nobody 
smiles.”  Yet  in  Capron  Hall  there 
ai*e  500  students  who  have  been  taught 
the  joy  of  living.  They  have  been 
freed  from  slavery  to  sui)erstition, 


A  STUDENT  GOVERNMENT  GROUP.  CAPRON 
HALL  JIIGII  SCHOOL,  MADURA,  INDIA 

have  their  own  Self-Government  So¬ 
ciety,  and  are  going  out  into  all 
Southern  India  as  light-bearers.  Ma¬ 
dura  District  without  Capron  Hall 
would  be  a  Massachusetts  and  Rhode 


S56 


THE  WOMAN'S  BOARDS 


A*  M. 3J2 


Island  area  with  no  high  school  girls, 
no  trained  women  teachers  in  its  lower 
schools,  no  educated  wives  in  the 
Jiomes  of  its  pastors.  Yet  it  has  no 
adequate  dormitory,  not  sufficient 
class  room,  no  Domestic  Science  build¬ 
ing.  For  years  lack  of  funds  has 
limited  its  influence. 

An  African  Product 

Listen  to  the  story  of  one  of  the 
graduates  of  Inanda  Seminary, 
founded  in  1868  by  the  first  mission¬ 
ary  of  W.  B.  M.,  Mrs.  Mary  K. 


Edwards,  who  is  still  reaping  the 
fruits  of  her  wonderful  seed-sowing 
in  South  Africa,  though  in  her  nine¬ 
ty-second  year.  This  student  was 
supported  by  gifts  from  Turkey.  She 
is  now  at  work  in  one  of  the  darkest 
spots  in  the  district — the  only  girl  in 
all  the  region  who  ever  went  to  school. 
She  has  opened  the  first  school  in  the 
whole  countryside,  where  she  is  moth¬ 
ering,  evangelizing  and  training  for 
future  service  fifty-eight  young  peo¬ 
ple.  But  she  is  the  only  Christian 
worker  there. 


WOMAN’S  BOARD  OF  MISSIONS  OF  THE  INTERIOR 

19  South  LaSalle  Street,  Chicago 


BUDGET  FOR  1922 
Receipts 

Receipts  from  Churches . 

Other  Income  . 

Disbursements 


Appropriations  to  the  field:  Salaries  .  $78,997 

Work  .  79,299 


Additional  grants  to  the  field . 

Furlough,  travel  and  outfit  grants . 

Administration  and  promotion  . 

Share  in  denominational  charges . 

Toward  reducing  deficit  . 

Left  Unprovided  for 


$273,000 

25,000 

-  $298,000 


$158,296  (1) 

17,500  (2) 

59,600 
35,000 
8,000 
19,604  (3) 

- $298,000 


Balance  of  deficit  .  $11,396  (3) 

Needed  increase  in  appropriations .  36,000 

Land  and  buildings  (immediate  needs) — Bulgaria, 

$25,000;  Greece,  $30,000;  India,  $40,000;  China, 

$10,000;  Japan,  $50,000;  Africa,  $1,900 .  156,900 

Training  candidates .  1,000 

Union  work  .  5,000 

-  $210,296 


Notes — (1)  Based,  dollar  for  dollar,  on  appropriations  for  1921;  (2)  i.e.,  grants,  to 
cover  unforeseen  needs  of  regular  work;  (3)  the  year  closed  October  15,  1919,  without 
debt;  the  deficit  October  15,  1920,  was  $31,000;  August  15,  1920,  showed  a  shortage  of 
$67,000,  but  as  figures  for  1921  are  not  complete  only  the  $31,000  of  1920  is  included  in  the 
budget. 


These  figures  make  no  provision  for  any  new  work.  Increased  receipts 
are  more  than  balanced  by  unavoidably  increased  expenses,  due  to  unsettled 
world  conditions.  If  every  cent  of  our  askings  is  received,  we  shall  barely 
hold  our  own,  and  shall  be  obliged  to  try  to  secure  additional  gifts  for  the 
buildings  imperatively  and  immediately  needed. 

It  is  for  the  churches  to  say  whether  the  work  which  they  in  faith  have 
undertaken  shall  go  on. 


A. M. 3J3 


THE  WOMAN^S  BOARDS 


S57 


AT  HOME  AND  ABROAD 


HE  territory  of  the  Woman’s 
Board  of  Missions  of  the 
Interior  comprises  the  states 
between  the  Allegheny  and  the 
Rocky  Mountains  with  nineteen  or¬ 
ganized  branches.  In  this  its  fifty- 
fourth  year  it  has  a  force  of  115  mis¬ 
sionaries  in  ten  different  countries. 
They  have  built  up  an  efficient  line  of 
day  schools,  boarding  schools,  kinder¬ 
gartens  and  colleges,  training  schools 


and  hospitals,  social,  industrial  and 
evangelistic  work,  which  are  pro¬ 
foundly  influencing  the  life  of  women 
in  those  nations.  If  the  home 
churches  could  see  these  crowded 
rooms  filled  with  irresistibly  attrac¬ 
tive  pupils,  could  see  the  changes 
wrought  in  their  lives,  homes  and 
towns,  and  could  see  those  others 
‘‘  without  the  gate,”  no  appeal  would 
need  to  be  uttered  for  1922. 


THE  EDUCATIONAL  LADDER 


Bottom 

T  the  bottom  of  the  educational 
ladder  are  the  kindergartens. 
In  Glory  Kindergarten,  Kobe, 
Japan,  the  little  folks  learned  last  fall, 
through  fascinating  story  and  play, 
about  the  great  World  Sunday  School 
Convention  and  its  motto,  “  I  am  the 
light  of  the  world.”  Every  year  at 
Thanksgiving  time  they  bring  gifts 
for  the  poor  of  their  city,  and  this 
year,  besides,  they  filled  little  envel¬ 
opes  with  money  for  the  famine  chil¬ 
dren  of  China.  How  is  that  for  in¬ 
ternational  friendship  ? 

The  Glory  Kindergarten  Training 
School  graduated  twelve  fine  young 
kindergartners  this  year.  One  of 
them,  who  had  accepted  a  position  in 
a  Christian  kindergarten,  was  also 
offered  a  government  position  at  a 
much  higher  salary,  and  her  father 
did  his  best  to  make  her  take  it.  But 
she  held  firmly  to  her  purpose  of  help¬ 
ing  to  make  little  Christian  citizens. 

Top 

At  the  top  of  the  ladder  are  the 
women’s  colleges,  so  few  but  so  much 
needed  for  the  training  of  Christian 
leaders.  The  students  of  Yenching, 
in  Peking,  have  done  this  year  what 
no  Chinese  women  ever  did  before: 
planned  and  carried  through,  with¬ 
out  foreign  initiative  or  supervision, 
a  refuge  home  which  is  considered  a 
model  even  by  foreigners,  for  two 
hundred  little  famine  victims  who 
would  otherwise  have  been  sold  into 
the  worst  of  slavery. 


'Kobe  College,  with  a  strategic  loca¬ 
tion,  a  splendid  faculty  and  govern¬ 
ment  recognition  of  its  high  standards, 
has  doubled  its  enrollment  in  six 
years.  The  college  and  academy 
numbered  550  in  1920-21,  and  for  lack 
of  dormitory  space  328  girls  who  had 
passed  the  entrance  examinations 
were  turned  away.  The  new  teacher 
of  social  science  says,  How  can  I 
talk  about  overcrowding  in  the  homes 
of  the  poor,  to  students  who  are  sleep¬ 
ing  in  overcrowded  dormitory 
rooms  ?  ’  ’  An  opportunity  has  come  to 
buy  a  fine  piece  of  land  adjoining  the 
campus,  which  would  give  tlie  needed 
room.  Shall  we  let  this  slip  by? 
Colleges  in  the  Orient  as  well  as  in 
America  cannot  be  maintained  with¬ 
out  endowment.  For  building  and 
endowment  to  meet  the  goveiaiment’s 
requirements,  $500,000  is  needed  in 
the  next  four  years. 

Says  a  keen  obseiwei’,  aftei*  a  visit 
to  Japan  last  fall :  ‘‘  Whenever  I  saw 
a  peculiarly  gracious  and  strong  and 
winning  Japanese  woman,  one  wlio  is 
a  force  for  good  in  her  community,  I 
came  to  expect  the  words,  ‘  Ob,  she  is 
a  graduate  of  Kobe  College!’  ” 

The  Rounds 

All  the  way  up  the  laddei'  are  llie 
scores  of  day  schools  and  the  sixteen 
boarding  schools.  Every  graduate 
‘‘  can  become  the  center  of  a  little 
circle  of  influence  that  may  spread  to 
far  and  unseen  shores.  When  a  girl 
is  the  mistress  of  a  little  country 
school,  the  field  is  pretty  much  liers, 


THE  WOMAN^S  BOARDS 


A.  M.  314 


S5S 

and  we  always  rejoice  to  help  her  in 
any  way,  and  to  watch  her  as  she 
lights  another  beacon  fire  pointing  the 
road  to  the  kingdom.’’ 

In  Dindigul,  India,  is  a  boarding 
school  which,  though  essential  to  the 
whole  mission  system  of  education,  is 
lionsed  in  tumhle-down  structures 
that  violate  any  number  of  govern¬ 
ment  rules  and  have  been  condemned 
again  and  again.  $15,500  must  be 
raised  for  tlie  girls’  dormitory  and 
recitation  building. 

Bridgman  Academy,  Peking,  has 
won  such  a  place  in  the  affections  of 
the  people  that  it  can  afford  to  be 
very  particular  about  the  government 
students  it  takes  in ;  but  it  must  have 
laboratory  equipment  or  it  will  not  be 
al)le  to  meet  the  entrance  require¬ 
ments  of  the  university. 

At  El  Euerte,  Mexico,  is  a  very  new 
school  that  has  to  use  kerosene  cases 
for  desks,  yet  has  two  hundred  eager, 
faithful  pupils. 

The  boarding  school  at  Lintsing, 
('hina,  has  half  its  new  building  com¬ 
pleted  and  is  obliged  to  choose  be¬ 
tween  building  the  other  half  and 
buying  a  furnace  to  make  the  first 
half  habitable ;  and  the  new  building 
is  already  so  full  that  some  of  the 
girls  must  eat  from  a  shelf  in  the 
kitchen. 

Of  the  institutions  at  Samokov, 
Bulgaria,  the  former  prime  minister 
said  :  Your  schools  are  becoming  the 
backbone  of  our  national  life.”  This 
because  of  their  splendid  training  in 
character.  The  girls  must  still  live 
and  work  in  the  old  buildings  that  are 
literally  in  danger  of  falling  about 
their  ears;  but  work  has  been  begun 
on  the  fine  new  plant  near  Sofia,  the 
capital  city,  on  the  land  which  the 
government,  gave.  Money  is  needed 
at  once  to  meet  the  construction  costs, 
which  it  is  estimated  will  total  $100,- 
000. 

The  Ministry  of  Healing 

Four  doctors  and  four  nurses  are 
the  contribution  of  the  W.  B.  M.  I.  to 
the  healing  of  China.  In  Shaowu 


there  has  been  for  years  just  one 
woman  doctor  for  over  2,000,000  peo¬ 
ple.  Now  there  are  two  Americans 
and  two  Chinese,  and  they  expect  to 
revolutionize  the  medical  work  for 
women  and  children.  The  long- 
awaited  woman’s  hospital  is  not  quite 
finished,  for  the  money  gave  out  be¬ 
fore  the  floor  was  all  down  or  the  win¬ 
dows  all  in.  $1,250  is  called  for  at 
once.  Similarly,  $3,000  is  needed  to 
put  the  necessary  equipment  into  the 
Kate  Ford  Whitman  hospital  in  Fen- 
chow,  and  the  Esther  Barton  hospital 
in  Taiku  is  still  under  construction. 
These  two  and  the  Williams  Porter 
hospitals  in  Tehchow  were  in  the 
famine  area  and  were  filled  last  win¬ 
ter  and  spring  with  famine  patients, 
besides  which  the  doctors  and  nurses 
gave  tliemselves  to  fighting  epidemics 
and  superintending  relief  work. 

Our  Native  Co-Workers 

Less  in  the  public  eye  than  the 
schools  and  hospitals  is  the  patient, 
consecrated  work  of  the  native  Bible 
women.  Going  into  the  homes  of  the 
people  as  no  foreigner  can,  teaching 
and  comforting,  these  women  are  a 
vital  part  of  every  mission’s  work. 
Many  a  future  leader  has  first  been 
brought  to  school  by  the  Bible 
woman ;  many  an  inaccessible  village 
has  been  opened  up  by  her.  For  this 
work  she  receives  a  bare  living,  and 
with  rising  prices  times  have  been 
hard  indeed. 

From  kindergarten  to  college,  and 
out  in  the  remote  villages,  most  of  the 
actual  teaching  is  done  by.  native 
teachers,  generally  under  missionary 
supervision  but  often  carrying  great 
responsibility.  With  these  and  the 
native  doctors  and  nurses,  indispen¬ 
sable  to  the  hospitals,  the  staff  of  na¬ 
tive  helpers  is  many  times  larger 
than  the  missionary  force.  Mission¬ 
aries  and  native  workers  alike  live  on 
the  merest  pittance,  while  giving 
themselves  as  few  of  us  can  realize  to 
the  work  of  the  Kingdom.  Shall  we 
at  home  l)e  less  loval? 

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THE  SURVEY 


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of  the  churches  in  the  State  Conferences,  who  pass  upon  it,  and  the  local 
church  is  the  judge  of  what  its  members  shall  be  asked  for.  In  the  last 
resort,  we  believe  it  is  Christ  Himself  who  is  asking  this  of  us.  Should  it  be 
clear  that  it  is  not  His  call,  by  all  means  let  it  be  refused  or  ignored. 


THE 

BUDGET 

The  following  figures  are  from  the  Year  Book,  and  include  contributions 
from  churches,  from  individuals  and  “  specially  designated  gifts.”  They  cover 
the  calendar  year,  whereas  the  Budgets  itemized  in  the  several  sections  of  the 
Survey  are  for  fiscal  years,  which  show  somewhat  different  amounts.  Detailed 
reports  of  each  Society  may  be  had  on  application. 

1920  Receipts.  1922  Askings.  Increase  Asked. 

A.  M.  A.  (p.  5) 

Contributions  . $396,075  $650,000  $253,925 

Other  Sources  .  443,371  443,371 

C.  E.  S.  (p.  12) 

Contributions  . . . 

Other  Sources  . 

151,998 

27,166 

$839,446 

275,000 

27,166 

$1,093,371 

123,002 

Educational  Inst . 

179,164 

180,432 

302,166 

350,000 

169,568 

C.  H.  M.  S.  (p.  17) 
Contributions  . 

632,340 

173,705 

1,000,000 

173,705 

367,660 

Other  Sources  . 

C.  C.  B.  S.  (p.  17) 

Contributions  . 

Other  Sources  . 

246,913 

40,423 

806,045 

425,000 

40,423 

1,173,705 

178,087 

C.  S.  S.  E.  S.  (p.  17) 

Contributions  . 

Other  Sources  . 

77,376 

2,698 

287,336 

125,000 

2,698 

465,423 

47,624 

C.  B.  M.  R.  and  An¬ 
nuity  Fund  (p.  31) 
Contributions,  M.  R.  . .  . 
Other  Sources,  M.  R.  .  . 

86,175 

77,836 

80,074 

100,000 

77,836 

127,698 

13,825 

Contrib.  An.  Fund  .... 

164,011 

177,836 

50,000 

50,000 

W.  H.  M.  F.  (p.  33) 
Share  of  homeland  bud¬ 
get  included  in  above. 

[273,914] 

[700,000] 

[426,086] 

A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  (p.  36) 

Contributions  . 

Other  Sources  . 

845,294 

344,829 

1,275,000 

344,829 

429,706 

Woman’s  Bds.  p.  53) 

Contributions  . 

Other  Sources  . 

524,353 

58,472 

1,190,123 

700,000 

58,472 

1,619,829 

175,647 

Miscellaneous  . 

582,825 

9,015 

758,472 

50,000 

40,985 

Totals . 

$4,318,471 

$6,168,500 

$1,850,029 

S62 


THE  SURVEY 


A»  M.  318 


WHAT  IS  OUR  SHARE? 

What  It  Is  Not 

1.  It  is  not  so  much  per  member.  A  simple  mathematical  process 
shows  that  $5,000,000  divided  among  819,205  members  amounts  to  $6.10  each. 
But  it  will  not  come  that  way.  It  is  a  rare  church  which  has  as  mau}^  sub¬ 
scribers  as  it  has  members.  The  14  pei*  cent  of  our  members  on  the  absentee 
list  are  almost  unreachable.  The  faint-hearted,  the  poor,  the  sick,  the  care¬ 
less,  and  the  non-prcductive  must  be  taken  into  account. 

2.  It  is  not  a  percentage  of  expenses.  It  is  easy  to  say  that  if  our  sum 
total  of  current  expenses  is  $15,000,000  and  our  total  needs  for  benevolences 
are  $5,000,000,  it  means  one-third  of  what  we  pay  for  our  current  expenses. 
Some  churches  are  rich,  some  are  poor.  Some  churches  have  home  missionary 
aid;  others  have  endowments  sufficient  to  meet  all  current  expenses.  Some 
churches  have  tremendous  responsibilities  for  service  locally;  othei'S  have  al¬ 
most  nothing  to  do  but  to  foster  their  own  spiritual  lives,  it  cannot  be  on  the 
basis  of  relative  exjienses. 

3.  It  is  not  a  percentage  of  former  giving.  Some  churches  have  been 
cultivated  consistently  for  generations  and  are  doing  their  level  best  now; 
others,  wdiich  have  nevei'  been  cultivated,  are  doing  almost  nothing. 

4.  It  is  not  exactly  the  apportionment  handed  down  by  the  Confer¬ 
ence  or  Association.  Committees  do  tlieii*  best  to  ai*rive  at  reasonable  and 
equitable  figui'es,  but  no  apportionment  can  ever  be  made  absolutely  equitable 
and,  of  course,  no  one  has  any  authority  to  levy  a  tax  on  any  chui'ch.  The 
apportionment  is  a  fi'aternal  suggestion  for  the  guidance  of  the  clnirch. 

What  It  Is 

1.  It  is  much  larger  than  formerly.  The  facts  presented  on  page 
4  make  it  clear  that  to  maintain  the  standard  of  missionary  work  of  the 
past,  there  is  needed  a  little  over  three  times  as  much  in  contributions  of  the 
living  as  before  the  war.  This  is  a  real  challenge,  but  it  is  not  beyond  our 
reach,  providing  we  ha^m  an  adequate  conception  of  its  worth-whileness. 

2.  It  is  a  proper  proportion  of  income.  Nobody  knows  the  aggregate  of 
our  income.  The  New  Testament  does  not  make  the  tithe  obligator^^  upon 
Christians.  Experience,  however,  proves  that  tithing  is  a  beneficent  practice, 
and  that  Christians  who  go  beyond  this  Old  Testament  standard  are  the  hap¬ 
piest  Christians.  It  is  possible  to  arrive  at  a  reasonable  goal  for  a  church’s 
benevolent  aim  by  estimating  the  aggregate  income  of,  its  constituency. 

3.  It  is  somewhere  near  the  apportionment.  Probably  the  apportion¬ 
ment  is  so  nearly  fair  that  it  is  as  good  a  figure  as  any.  If  it  is  large  compared 
with  other  churches,  in  all  probability  it  is  still  within  reacii,  and  the  meeting 
of  it  would  bring  a  spiritual  benediction.  Not  how  little  is  our  share,  but  how^ 
large  a  share  can  we  take,  may  well  be  the  attitude  of  each  church. 

It  is  notable  that  the  year  of  greatest  increases  in  benevolences  shows 
the  largest  number  of  accessions  in  our  history — 71,857.  Rhode  Island  illus¬ 
trates  this  connection :  missionary  contributions,  1919,  $23,624 ;  1920,  $52,722, 
an  increase  of  123  per  cent.  Simultaneously,  there  was  a  grading  up  in  the 
whole  life  of  the  churches,  especially  in  evangelistic  endeavors,  and  the  fol¬ 
lowing  vote  was  passed  by  the  Conference  in  May : 

In  view  of  the  great  advance  steps  taken  by  Congregational  churches  of 
Rhode  Island  during  the  past  two  years,  advance  in  giving  and  in  solicitude 
for  personal  allegiance  of  men  and  women  to  Jesus  Christ  and  His  church,  and 
recognizing  that  for  such  forward  steps  we  owe  much  to  the  spirit  engen¬ 
dered  by  our  Congregational  World  Movement  therefore, 

Be  It  Resolved,  That  this  Conference  put  itself  on  record  as  approving  the 
team-work  spirit  of  our  Congregational  World  Movement. 


A.  M. 3J9 


THE  SURVEY 


S63 


WE  CAN  DO  IT 

The  denomination  can  do*  it.  The  accompanying  illustration  visualizes 
Ihe  size  of  the  task.  The  long  line  represents  a  conservative  estimate  of  the 
total  income  of  oiir  members.  The  little  black  spot  in  the  corner  shows  how 
much  of  that  income  is  T‘(‘quired  to  produce  $5, 000, 000.  No  argument  is 
needed  in  support  of  the  asscition  that  we  can  do  it  easily  if  everyone  does 
his  share.  But  that  is  perhaps  too  much  to  hope  for.  The  second  line  shows 
what  would  be  required  if  half  of  our  people  do  nothing.  It  stands  for  the 
income  of  the  other  half.  That  little  black  spot  in  the  corner  represents  the 


Income  of  Total  Membership 


If  Everybody  Gives 


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2%  Income  of  J/2 
Membership 


If  V2  Give 


Income  of  Vs 
Membership 


If  Vs  Give 


proportioji  needed  of  the  income  of  one-half  of  our  people.  Still  no  argument 
is  required.  The  third  line  represents  a  safe  estimate  of  the  income  of  one- 
third  of  our  membership.  Suppose  that  two-thirds  of  us  should  do  nothing 
towards  this  great  enterprise,  it  remains  for  one-third  to  provide  for  that 
little  black  spot  in  the  corner  representing  approximately  3  per  cent  of  the 
total  income  of  that  one-third,  and  still  there  is  no  call  for  argument. 


The  average  church  can  dp  it.  Here  argument  is  not  needed  because 
average  churches  are  doing  it.  Partial  reports  from  the  following  states  indi¬ 
cate  that  the  1921  apportionments  have  been  raised  or  exceeded:  in  Massa¬ 
chusetts  44  churches;  Washington  38;  Georgia  (white)  37;  Illinois  34;  Wis¬ 
consin  32;  Southern  California  24;  Florida  26;  Maine  25;  Kansas  19;  Minne¬ 
sota  16;  Montana  16;  Northeim  California  15;  Ohio  14;  Tennessee  13;  Okla¬ 
homa  10;  North  Carolina  8;  Louisiana  8;  Colorado  7;  Oregon  7;  Indiana  5; 
Kentucky  5;  Idaho  3;  Wyoming  3;  Utah  1. 


My  church  can  do  it.  If  dcmonsti*ation  is  needed  here,  let  thei*c  be  a 
careful  study  of  the  resources  of  the  church,  of  the  number  participating  in 
the  missionary  enterprise,  of  the  means  taken  to  seciu-e  intei'cst  in  that  enter¬ 
prise,  and  of  the  process  foi*  enlisting  that  intei’est  in  adive  particij)ation  by 
actually  securing  subscriptions,  and  there  will  be  little  need  of  argument  to 
assure  the  church  that  it  can  do  its  share.  The  ])rinci])al  needs  in  any  given 
church  are  that  the  members  should  know  about  the  work  and  therefore  be 
interested  in  it,  and  that  they  should  be  given  adecpiate  op])ortunity  for  tak¬ 
ing  their  fair  share  of  the  responsibility. 

I  can  do  it.  Ultimately  the  answer  to  the  call  lies  with  the  individual. 
With  him  it  is  fundamentally  a  question  of  how  valuable  he  considers  the 
enterprise.  Generally  speaking,  we  put  our  income  into  necessities,  comforts, 
luxuries,  extravagances,  investments  and  contributions.  Ordinarily  we  can 
cut  into  extravagances,  luxuries,  comforts,  and  even  so-called  necessities,  if 
we  seriously  want  to,  many  times  beyond  the  amount  of  our  contributions. 


S64 


THE  SURVEY 


A.  M.  320 


THESE  HAVE  DONE  IT 

JT  is  easy  to  theorize.  The  foregoing  propositions  seem  plausible  enough. 
But  actions  speak  louder  than  words.  Have  ordinary  churches,  facing 
ordinary  difficulties,  undertaking  fair  shares  of  the  enlarged  budget, 
actually  reached  the  goal?  Yes.  Many  of  them  have  and  many  more  are  in 
the  process.  Not  until  the  end  of  the  year  shall  we  know  how  many,  but  we 
have  heard  of  over  400  where  the  goal  is  assured,  and  in  the  Emergency  Cam¬ 


Examples  of  churches, 

both  large  and  small,  that  have 

raised  or  ex- 

ce(*dod  their  apportionments  are  the  following 

Name 

Apportionment 

^Expectation 

Evanston,  Ill . 

. .  First  . 

$45,000 

$30,000 

(entire  amount  possible) 

Providence,  R.  I . 

.  .  Central  . 

20,402 

20,402 

Los  Angeles,  Cal . 

..First  . 

13,556.40 

18,000 

LaGrange,  Ill . 

18,375 

20,280 

Bridgeport,  Conn . 

.  .United  . 

12,636 

12,636 

Portland,  Maine . 

. .  State  St . 

12,000 

12,000 

Winnetka,  Ill . 

11,000 

11,000 

Fort  Wayne,  Ind . 

3,094 

5,000 

Northfield,  Minnesota  . 

4,586 

4,586 

Fitchburg,  Mass . 

.  .  Rollstone  . 

3,134 

3,202 

Worthington,  Minn . 

842 

1,342 

Weymouth,  Mass . 

679 

900 

Marlboro,  N.  H . 

660 

660 

Boxford,  Mass . 

642 

800 

Oakham,  Mass . 

375 

750 

Lincoln  Heights,  Wash . 

185 

350 

Lovell,  Maine  . 

50 

200 

paign  of  1919  close  to  half  of  the  churches  lifted  their  benevolences  to  the 
standard  called  for  now.  To  make  it  concrete  we  print  a  short  list  taken 
almost  at  random. 


Many  of  our  larger  churches 
which  two  or  three  years  ago  they 
ing  to  consider.  For  example :  First 
apportionment  of  $45,000,  $30,000 
strong  possibility  that  the  remain 
of  the  year.  The  First  Church  of 
raise  a  like  amount.  The  latest 
subscriptions  already  in  a  little 
smaller  churches  whose  appor 
less  than  $100  have  accepted 
larger  than  their  former  appor 
courageously  and  successfully  to 
This  great  adventure  is 
Christ  for  the  Kingdom  of 
church  spire  is  beckoning 
It  is  directing  toward  God 
multitudes;  in  its  message 


have  undertaken  to  raise  amounts 
would  have  been  absolutely  unwill- 
Church  of  Evanston,  Ill.,  with  an 
of  which  seems  assured,  with  a 
der  will  be  secured  before  the  end 
Oak  Park,  Ill.,  has  undertaken  to 
report  from  that  church  indicates 
below  $30,000.  Likewise  many 
tionments  two  years  ago  were 
amounts  which  are  several  times 
tionments,  and  have  undertaken 
raise  the  amounts  suggested, 
with  the  program  of 
God  on  earth.  The 
us  to  lofty  aspirations, 
the  hearts  of  earth’s 
is  the  hope  of  the 
passionate  spirit  pierce 


human  race.  May  its'"^^’* 
and  sanctify  the  challenge  of  these  pages  and  enter  into  the  heart  of  every 
reader,  that  God’s  mind  may  rule  in  us. 


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